Power companies responsible for overbilling: Mohsin Naqvi

ISLAMABAD: Making it clear that overbilling was not acceptable at any cost, Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi on Monday ordered the power distribution companies to provide immediate relief to the masses in their electricity bills,

Addressing a press conference, he said not only affluent power and state consumers but also poor households were a victim of overbilling, adding that the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) had charged a total of additional 830 million units – a practice to hide the failure to check line losses and power theft and burden the people who face the consequences of an inefficient system.

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Naqvi admitted that electricity tariffs were too high and said that the authorities were acting vigorously against those involved in power theft and especially mentioned the efforts being made in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in this connection where the practice is more rampant.

He added that the campaign against overbilling will not stop despite pressure on the Federal Investigation Agency.

The minister added that he could not speak for the past but there would be no pressure on FIA from now on.

He also added that several laws in the country are in the process of being amended,

Naqvi also said that people have to wait hours at airports across the country which should not happen.