Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak on Monday conditioned acceptance of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company’s control with all power sector assets located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Khattak wrote to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in response to the latter’s decision to hand over PESCO to the KP government.
He presented an eleven-point detailed package on which would be premised the acceptance by the KP government of transfer of control of not just PESCO but all power sector assets located in KP.
In the letter which endorses PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s statement regarding taking over of the power sector assets including PESCO, Khattak presented an eleven-point detailed package on which would be premised the acceptance by the KP government of transfer of control of not just PESCO but all power sector assets located in KP.
The package seeks to redress past imbalances and inequities as well as reforming the present dilapidated and erratic system premised on an unjust and uneven system of federal investments in the power infrastructure of KP.
CM Khattak makes the point that while his province produces the cheapest electricity and a surplus, yet people of the province suffer in terms of delivery and rates of electricity.
He also draws attention to the failure of the centralised power system to deliver which is why all three elements – generation, distribution and transmission should be given to the KP government in the all-encompassing package deal.
KP CM links PESCO control to power sector assets
