Sahiwal spark energy plant will spin half Punjab into TB patients: Shah
Chairman Public Accounts Committee Khursheed Shah. PHOTO: PID/FILE
Opposition Leader in a National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has pronounced a coal-fired appetite plant in Sahiwal is not environment-friendly and would spin half a race of Punjab range into Tuberculosis (TB) patients.
Chairing a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) assembly in Islamabad on Wednesday, a PPP comparison leader, who is also a authority of a committee, pronounced people would die from fume and atmosphere wickedness and that would lead to registration of murder cases opposite a Punjab government, Express News reported.
“This plan is a territory 302 box opposite a government,” Shah pronounced and demanded that a coal-fired plant contingency be stranded down during a earliest.
Another alien coal-based plant in Punjab
Today’s assembly was called to examination altogether conditions per indemnification and burglary in a appetite era department.
Leader of a antithesis in lower residence of council pronounced a emanate of appetite burglary would be separated a day scold electricity tariff is charged from a consumers. “Wapda [Water and Power Development Authority] contingency cruise reasons behind a appetite theft… people will take when they are charged five rupees instead of one,” he remarked.
The PAC chief pronounced a categorical reason behind electricity burglary in farming areas was over-billing. “In a final 5 years, we [Wapda] will also review to go door-to-door and desire people to buy electricity like PTCL [Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited],” he said, adding, “But, people will not buy electricity and switch to solar energy.”
Electricity burglary on a arise as summer rolls in
Committee member Naveed Qamar, another PPP leader, pronounced on a arise that consumers were pang due to over-billing and 90% bills were being sent but meter-reading by requesting normal formula.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Shafqat Mehmood pronounced electricity bills were being delivered at homes only a day before a deadline and claimed that he was also a plant of that practice.
Admitting shortcomings of a department, Water and Power Secretary Yousuf Naseem pronounced ‘all was not well’ as complaints of over-billing and delays in check placement were being received.
He, however, vowed that an effective complement for consumer complaints will be activated within a subsequent 3 months.
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