Summary Sindh government has to pay Rs. 50 billion, Abid Ali Sher told NA.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali today (Wednesday) said that the government has geared up efforts to recover outstanding electricity bills from the provincial departments.
During question hours, he told the House that directives have been issued to the provincial departments to pay the electricity bills or their connections will be disconnected.
He said one hundred billion rupees are receivable from KESC while fifty billion rupees are outstanding against the Sindh government.
The minister said that agreement to provide 660MW electricity to Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) is illegal and the court will be approached to review this accord.
To a question‚ he said a number of steps such as conversion of oil based plants to coal and installation of plants on hydel sources are being taken to deal with the issue of circular debt which currently stands at 157 billion rupees.
