While blaming the government anarchy like situation in the country over prolonged power outages and the highest ever electricity tariff the PIAF has demanded of the government enhance power generation on war footing as 14 to 16 hours load shedding is likely to trigger the civil disobedience. In a press statement issued here Tuesday, Chairman PIAF Sohail Lashari said that government was failed to generate electricity even as per installed capacity of more than 18000 MW. The PIAF Chairman said that despite a strong opposition by the private sector, the government adopted the path of rental power projects instead of producing cheap and sufficient electricity through hydel and coal resources. He said that load shedding is making the business community cry.
He said that non-payment of dues to the IPPs was the biggest reason of ongoing energy crisis but government was least interested to pay dues despite sucking the blood of masses in the name of unjustifed fuel adjustment charges. He said that it is a sheer injustice that instead controlling line losses and making arrangements to stop electricity thefts in the other provinces, the authorities were busy in worsening the situation in Punjab. He said that if immediate measures were not taken to ensure continuous supply of electricity to the industrial units, nothing could stop the industrial wheel from coming to a grinding halt and resultant massive lay-offs. He said that industry was already passing through a very difficult times and the none-supply of power adding fuel to fire.
