ISLAMABAD (The Thursday Times) — Pakistan ke power regulator ne factoriyon aur kheton ki jaanib se istemal hone wali izafi bijli ka rate Rs22.98 se barha kar Rs25.30 fi unit notify kar diya hai, halankeh is ke chaar mein se do arakan ne is faislay ki mukhalifat ki thi aur scheme muattal karne ka mutalba kiya tha.
National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) ne Jumeraat ko izafi khapat package se mutaliq apna 6 November ka faisla Gazette of Pakistan mein ek SRO ke zariye jaari kiya, jis ke saath arakan Amina Ahmed aur Maqsood Anwar Khan ke ikhtilafi note aur chairman Waseem Mukhtar ka faisla kun vote bhi shamil hai.
Yeh package wafaqi cabinet ne November 2025 mein manzoor kiya aur December mein mutaarif karaya gaya. Is ke tehat sanati aur zarai sarifeen apni mamool ki khapat se zyada istemal hone wali bijli par kam rate ada karte hain. Is ka maqsad sanati talab ko dobara grid par lana aur bekaar pari paidawari salahiyat ko istemal karna hai. Is ki sharait ke mutabiq rate ko kam az kam izafi bijli ki faraham ki marginal laagat poori karni chahiye taake is ka bojh doosre sarifeen par na pare, aur har chhe maah baad is ka jaiza lena lazmi hai.
Authority do do mein taqseem ho gayi. Mukhtar aur Member (Law) Ghulamullah Shaikh ne Wazarat-e-Tawanai ke tajweez karda Rs25.30 ke rate par package barqarar rakhne ki himayat ki. Amina Ahmed aur Maqsood Anwar ne is rate ko saboot ke baghair ek "random number" qarar diya, kaha ke Nepra ke apne hisaab ke mutabiq marginal laagat Rs31.83 fi unit hai, aur sifarish ki ke Power Division ki jaanib se qabil-e-tasdeeq data par mabni jaiza jama karane tak package muattal rakha jaye.
Dono arakan ne kaha ke jab tak rate laagat se kam raha, is ka farq mahana fuel cost adjustment ke zariye tamam sarifeen se wusool kiya gaya, aur izafi units ko seh-mahi adjustment se bahar rakhne se un sarifeen par bojh barha jo yeh package istemal nahin karte.
Chaaron arakan ne Power Division aur us ke matehat idaron ko chhe maah pehle wajib-ul-ada nazarsani shuda hisabaat jama na karane ka zimmedar thehraya. Apne faisla kun vote mein Mukhtar ne kaha ke ikhtilaf karne wale arakan ke nataij "sanjeedgi se ghaur ke mutaqazi" hain, lekin is marhale par package muattal karna munasib nahin hoga aur wazarat ko data faraham karne ka ek aur mauqa milna chahiye. Faislay mein nayi deadlines muqarrar ki gayi hain aur khabardar kiya gaya hai ke in ki pabandi na karne par package muattal ya khatam kiya ja sakta hai aur qanooni karrawai bhi ho sakti hai.
Sanati sarifeen ne aitraz kiya hai ke laagat se kam rate ki wajah se har tarah ke sarifeen ki fuel cost adjustment barh gayi hai, aur Karachi ki SITE Association of Industry ne package muattal karne ka mutalba kiya hai.
Power Division ne sanati tariff mein izafay ki khabron ko mustarad kar diya hai. Ek tarjuman ne kaha ke Rs25.30 package ke tehat nazarsani shuda marginal rate hai, sanati tariff nahin. Un ke mutabiq October mein sanati tariff taxon ke baghair ausatan Rs34.40 fi kilowatt-hour raha, aur taxon samait yeh March 2024 ke muqablay mein taqreeban Rs18.94 fi unit kam hai. Tarjuman ne kaha ke ilaqai jang ki wajah se marginal paidawari laagat barh gayi hai, aur nazarsani shuda rate November se nafiz hoga.
Tarjuman ke mutabiq December 2025 se September 2026 tak is package ke tehat 6,940 gigawatt-hour izafi khapat hui aur sarifeen ko taqreeban Rs43.5 arab ka faida pohncha. 518,316 ahal sarifeen mein se 209,335, yani taqreeban 40 fisad, ne is se faida uthaya hai.
Yeh faisla aise waqt aaya hai jab bijli ka nizam dabao mein hai. Is haftay Tarbela mein ek waqiye ke baad bijli ki kami barh kar 1,500MW ho gayi.
