PESHAWAR: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Ameer Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has accused the federal government of depriving KP of its due rights.
He explained that the province is generating 5700 megawatts electricity at the cost of Rs1 per unit, but it has to purchase it from the center at Rs18 per unit.
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Senator Mushtaq further said that that KP’s consumption is much less – hardly 2500 megawatts – than its consumption, but the province is not being provided its constitutional rights and the province has facing unscheduled power cuts and inflated bills. The Senator also criticised KP government for failure to raise voice for the rights of the province.
The Jamaat-e-Islami has staged protests against the Fuel Price Adjustment recover in electricity bills on Friday in Peshawar, Chitral, Mardan, Nowshera, Dera Ismail Khan, Dir, Swat and Mansehra on the appeal of senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan. Senator Mushtaq in his statement issued from Al-Markaz-e-Islami termed the recovery of Fuel Price Adjustment in bills extortions.
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (NEPRA) had increased the unit price of electricity by Rs4.74 paise in terms of October fuel price adjustment. The people have strongly reacted to the increase in bill and demanding the government to withdraw the fuel charges.
The country has been witnessing a steady rise in the price of electricity for some time now. Whenever NEPRA announces new fuel adjustment charges, there is a backlash from consumers. NEPRA sets the price of fuel for a specific period in the price of electricity, which can be positive or negative. The decision of NEPRA’s monthly fuel adjustment is also based on the increase in fuel prices in the global market in the month of October.
After the recent declines in fuel prices at global level, NEPRA on 31 August has announced some reduction in the prices of electricity which is yet to be approved by government.