Nepra has announced yet another increase of Rs 1.77 per unit of power while the cost of hydel electricity is stated to be 13 paisas per unit, HSD Rs 18.02 per unit, furnace oil Rs 14.81 per unit and cost of Karkey RPP was Rs. 42.57 per unit. Wisdom would demand that we must go for hydel route by all possible means to make power affordable for the masses otherwise the repeated increases in power rates would make it well sigh impossible for use and power thefts would rise consequently. It is good that the government has commenced work on the Diamer-Bhasha dams but other dams need to be looked into as well.
We could not go on producing power from IPP and RPP units which would be disastrous for our economy and unbearable for the common man. Somebody ought to see the folly of using imported fuel to generate power at ever increasing cost.
DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore
