ISLAMABAD: Minister for Energy Hammad Azhar will address a press conference on Friday (today) to provide details of the relief tariff taken to reduce the power tariffs.
The federal minister said the Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) government had decided to make the electricity relief package of Rs 5 per unit, announced by the prime minister more effective to protect the masses from the impact of global inflation.
“It is the foremost priority of the government to protect the masses of the impacts of global inflation,” the minister said on Twitter, adding thats he would unveil details of the relief package at a news conference.
He also announced a ‘big relief’ for the farming community using solar power for tube wells, under which “their (farmers) electricity bills will start reversing during the days the tube wells are not needed to be run. All distribution companies will also implement this announcement.”
Prime Minister Imran Khan had announced a massive reduction in petrol and diesel prices up to Rs10 per litre besides bringing down the electricity tariff up to Rs5 per unit. While addressing the nation on Tuesday, the prime minister said that he wants to highlight the national policies and the evolving global situation in his address to the nation today.
He also unveiled a relief package for the nationals including the reduction in petrol prices, power tariff, tax exemptions for the IT sector and others. He said the government has decided not to increase the petrol and electricity prices till the next budget. The stipend to the deserving people under Ehsaas poverty alleviation programme was increased from Rs12,000 to Rs14,000.
