ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army will be tasked with monitoring deficit disks to prevent power theft and damage, As the government has decided to take strict action against power thieves as well as improve the collection of electricity bills.
According to The News, A current service brigadier consisting of officials from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and his support staff in all damages Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs) cases Will monitor۔Make a disco.
The monitoring team will have a mandate to identify corrupt elements in the discos as well as those who encourage and steal electricity. These personnel will also have the authority to take action against the perpetrators.
“We have developed a plan that has not yet been approved by the top authorities. However, senior Power Division officials plan to start implementing the project from HESCO (Hyderabad Electric Supply Company) as a pilot project,” Secretary Power confirms The News.
“ This will help identify dishonest elements inside the disco and people will put their hands in gloves with power theft and loss of billions of rupees to the national treasury
According to data from the financial year 2020-21 available with The News, the collection of electricity bills at HESCO was 73.7%, SPECO was 64.6%, QESCO was 34.66% And TESCO at 25.29%.
caretaker Minister of Energy, September 6, Announcing the crackdown plan against power thieves, the system is said to be major due to power theft and failure to pay bills of Rs 589 billion every year Combats damage.
As of September 6 this year, in Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan and Islamabad — where rehabilitation is relatively good, the total loss in discos was 79 billion units, That is equivalent to a loss of Rs. 100 billion out of a billing of Rs. 3,044 billion, which is estimated at 3%. Similarly, in Peshawar, Hyderabad, Sukhar, Quetta, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the discos lost up to 60%.
However, harmful companies such as HESCO, SEPCO, QESCO and TESCO, The desired results are not being achieved due to which it has been decided that the performance monitoring units will be headed by a FIA and IB support staff The present service will be brigadier.