Federal Power Minister Awais Laghari unveiled on Saturday the ‘Electricity Relief Package’ aka ‘Bijli Sahulat Package’ for domestic, industrial, and commercial consumers during the winter season.

At a press conference on Saturday, the minister said that domestic consumers would get cheap electricity of up to Rs26.7 per unit for their power consumption surpassing 200 units of the protected category and it would help them to save Rs11.42 to Rs26 per unit in the three months of winter.

Through the package, he said the government had “achieved a milestone” in the power sector and termed it a “revolutionary step” which would bring economic stability to the country.

“We have initiated reforms in the power sector not only to streamline its system but to make it profitable,” he added.

The power sector had a “significant role and backbone” of the country’s economy, Leghari said and claimed that the government had fulfilled the promise made with the people.

The power minister added that the package would provide relief to the domestic consumers at the same time and enhance the industrial activities in the country. “The government intends to continue the Electricity Relief Package for the national interest.”

Leghari stated that the industrial sector would save 18 to 37 per cent or Rs5.27 to Rs15.5 per unit under the package to help boost industrial production, growth and livelihoods. The commercial consumers would be given a 34 to 47 per cent saving or Rs13.46 to Rs22.71 per unit subsidy in the package.

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He said that National Transmission & Despatch Company had been divided into three companies such as Independent Marketing System, National Grid Company, and Infrastructure Management Company to complete the projects on their stipulated time.

In the past, the power minister said that the NTDC projects had “delayed due to negligence and embezzlements of the authorities concerned.” The three companies, would be functional in February 2025, aims to complete power projects “timely and ensure transparency in the sector to yield desirous results.”

He added that 50 to 60 employees would work in each company by having their own managing director and CEO.