Monday, December 21, 2009

Govt to raise power tariff by 13.6 %

Govt to raise power tariff by 13.6 %ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to raise power tariff by 13.6 per cent from 1st January, the Water and Power Ministry Secretary Shahid Rafi announced on Monday.

According to Shahid Rafi, power tariffs were to be raised by 12 percent under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while 1.6 percent hike, withdrew last time, has also been included in the new rates.

The new tariff will also be applicable on the consumers, using less then 100 unit a month.

He further said that agricultural consumers would also not be exempted from the raise.

1 comment:

Nazish ALi said...

this is bullshit , garmion ma logon ka bura hal ho jai ga, kaun pay kara ga bijli ka bill, Pakistan ko baich dia hai peoples party na , hang them all peoples party memebers