Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI) Imran Khan has said that if his party came into government the menace of terrorism and corruption could be defunct in first 90 days.
Addressing an energy conference arranged by his party here on Sunday, he said that the energy crises was the biggest issue of the country which is leading country towards bankruptcy and deindustrialization as more and more industries were closing daily.
He said that in his government the size of federal cabinet would be small and only honest and competent people would be made ministers.
With 60-member cabinet, how a prime minister can hold on to any authority, he questioned.
He termed the rental power plant project a disaster and said that if Tehreek-e-Insaf came into power it will constitute an autonomous body for resolving energy crises and cabinet will not interfere in any institutions day affairs.
“Police and bureaucracy would be depoliticised and the government structure will be changed altogether,” Imran Khan said, adding that leaders and party heads will never ever make long term policies for the country.
“The PTI will present a comprehensive solution of energy crisis,” PTI chief said, and added that whole system of governance in the country needed to change by ending political interference in the state institutions.
Imran also vowed to give Pakistan the governance which no other government has delivered in the past.
Earlier, giving his presentation on energy crises, PTI representative Jahngir Khan Tareen said that energy policy vision identifies poor governance as the main reason for our current energy crises.
“There has been a lack of long term planning and implementation over the last four decades with increasing reliance on quick but expensive fixes such as imported thermal and rental power plants,” he said.
He further added that Indigenous resources such as domestic gas, abundant hydel and thar coal had been criminally ignored.
He said that dependence on imported furnace oil has increased the total oil import bill from $2 billion to $12 billion in the last decade and the current government had neither the ability nor the political will to make the sector financially viable by lowering losses and leakages in the system and reducing the cost of generation. He further said that the government had instead spent 1 trillion in subsidies, almost doubled tariffs and there is still no solution in sight.
“Peak power shortage will rise from the current 5,500 MW to over 11,000 MW in the next five years leading to even more hours of load-shedding than today,” he said, commenting that the natural gas deficit will rise from 1,600 mmcfd in the next five years, leading to massive economic disruptions and consumer misery whereas energy import bill will rise from $12 billion to $60 billion by 2025.
Jahngir Khan Tareen said that “Big Bang” governance reforms would be launched in the first 100 days of PTI government and also a single, professional energy ministry and single empowered energy regulator would be constituted.
“Public sector enterprises like GENCOs, DISCOs, OGDC, etc would be liberated from government interference,” he said. He added that power sector generation will be opened up to small and medium investors and adopt use of renewable, off-grid solutions like solar biomass micro hydel for rural electrification.
He further said that for resolving the issue of circular debt overall transmission and distribution losses would be decreased from 20 to 10 per cent and collection from 88 to 95 percent.
“PTI will add 40,000 MW electricity in national grid within five years by fast-tracking stalled pipeline projects and CASA hydel-based import and 20,00 mmcfd gas would be added from domestic gas within five years by facilitating and incentivinzing existing and new investors,” Jahngir Tareen added.
PTI will defunct terrorism, corruption in 90 days: Imran
