Islamabad:
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) summoned the details of the 300 best defaults on Tuesday, as public and private entities owe billions of billions to electricity distribution companies (DISCO).
Due to the failure of discos to recover the pending contributions, the national treasure suffered a loss of 877 billion rupees.
A CAP meeting, chaired by Junaid Akbar, examined audit objections linked to the energy division for exercise 2023-24.
The session was informed that Discos had overlapping over 877 billion rupees by the failed during the year 2022-23.
An audit report has revealed massive exceptional contributions in various electricity distribution companies (Disco). In Fesco, 513 consumers must collectively RS2.47 billion. Hesco has 5,900 consumers with unpaid contributions amounting to 44.46 billion rupees.
Meanwhile, Lesco faces arrears from RS16.1 billion 3,736 consumers. PESCO has 824 consumers who owe 8.6 billion rupees, while the exceptional QESCO contributions are held at 603.35 billion rupees of 2,428 consumers.
Sepco is due to RS119,837 billion by 342 consumers. Tesco has 146 consumers with unpaid invoices totaling 6.17 billion rupees. Meanwhile, suspended contributions from IESCO amounted to 200 million rupees from 142 consumers. Audit officials informed the committee that 118 letters had been sent to the electricity division for recovery efforts, Qesco having the greatest number of unresolved cases.
During the session, Khalid Magsi, member of the committee, expressed his frustration in the face of the deterioration of the public order of the Balutchistan, affirming that the movement in the province has become almost impossible.
He said that the inhabitants of Balutchistan have no choice but to take up arms, alleging that the GLA agents wander freely in the streets.
He also said that the resumption of contributions to Quetta was no longer feasible, saying that the Balutchistan government was itself the greatest defrosting.
In response, the Secretary of the Division of Power informed the Committee that the nightclubs submitted working documents for the resumption of RS162 billion, undertaking to follow the progress personally.
The president of the CAP asked the auditor general to verify the complaint by the next session and ordered the electricity division to lead two ministerial accounts (DAC), with a monthly report on recovery each month.
The Committee also examined the discos from the failure of the abolition of obsolete electrical equipment and to recover the suspected contributions exceeding 501 billion rupees.
It was revealed that nightclub agents had benefited from free electricity, which prompted the secretary to power to announce that the federal government has decided to stop free electricity units.
