ISLAMABAD:
The Nationwide Meeting Standing Committee on Vitality (Energy Division) has expressed concern over non-payment of electrical energy payments by the irrigation and energy departments of the Sindh authorities, inflicting monetary losses to energy distribution firms working within the province.
In response to an official assertion issued on Wednesday, the committee directed the chief govt officers of Sukkur Electrical Provide Firm (SEPCO) and Hyderabad Electrical Provide Firm (HESCO), together with the secretaries of finance, irrigation and energy departments of the Sindh authorities, to collectively reconcile excellent figures and prepare funds to forestall recurring losses.
The committee met in Parliament Home, Islamabad, beneath the chairmanship of Muhammad Idrees, MNA. Members have been knowledgeable that the irrigation division alone owed Rs617 million to SEPCO and Rs125 million to HESCO for electrical energy equipped to SCARP (Salinity Management and Reclamation Mission) tube wells, places of work and irrigation colonies. The secretaries of the irrigation and energy departments argued that the Sindh authorities didn’t owe payments associated to irrigation colonies. They said that each energy firms had repeatedly been requested to convey residents of irrigation colonies into the metering community, however motion from the businesses was nonetheless awaited.
They additional knowledgeable the committee that particular person meters had been put in in solely two irrigation colonies falling beneath the HESCO area. The committee was advised that the Sindh authorities was able to reconcile the figures and pay the billed quantities.
Being attentive to the seriousness of the difficulty, the committee determined to represent a subcommittee beneath the convenership of Syed Wasim Hussain, MNA.
