Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb promised that electricity bills will not be reduced immediately.
A question was asked in today’s news program that electricity bills will be reduced? To which he replied that it will take time, the idea is to remove political people from the boards of distribution companies ie discos and bring in people from the private sector, and the board should be headed by a person from the private sector. should
He said that we tried to do this through the Presidential Ordinance but it was challenged, now this bill is in the Senate and then it will go to the National Assembly, but legislation takes time, our effort was to change the boards. It was done at the same time when we came, the nominations for the posts have also come, everything is ready.
Mohammad Aurangzeb said that there is a need to change the boards because we have to move the discos towards privatisation, also trying to control the issue of gross subsidy for the industries.
