The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) directed on Thursday not to provide free electricity to power sector officers and employees.
According to official sources, the PAC agreed to give allowances to power sector officers and employees instead of providing free units of electricity.
In this regard, the PAC decided to write letters to all chief secretaries.
The PAC was also concerned about the inflated prices of items at rest stops along highways.
PAC Chairman Noor Alam Khan asked the communications secretary to fix the condition of Lahore GT Road. “Not even a single pit should be seen on Motorway M2,” he directed.
The PAC members expressed displeasure over unannounced load-shedding in the country. “Why is the load-shedding schedule not issued?” Noor Alam Khan asked the power division secretary.
“Loadshedding is high in areas where there is power pilferage,” said the power division secretary.
On the occasion, PAC Chairman Noor Alam Khan expressed anger over the absence of the K-Electric chief executive officer (CEO).
“The K-Electric CEO should be arrested if he does not come next time,” Noor Alam Khan directed.
“The people of Karachi are dying, and you are not taking the PAC seriously,” he expressed his anger and was also directed to issue arrest warrants for the K-Electric CEO.
Sheikh Rohale Asghar, a PML-N lawmaker, and PAC member, said on the occasion that big thieves were working with Wapda, while single-fan families bore the brunt of power theft.
