Peshawar: Provincial government has rejected the enhancing power
tariff and has decided to move the court against the increase of
electricity prices.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government constituted a
panel of legal experts which would file a writ petition in the apex
judiciary to challenge the rise in the price of electricity.
Earlier
the provincial government had also submitted an application in National
Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) against the price hike of
electricity in which it took plea that the province is already affected
by the terrorism badly and increasing power tariff would add the
suffering of the people . It was also mentioned in the appeal that there
are enough resources of generating electricity in the province and the
provincial government is also producing electricity. So the increase in
KP would be unjust.
It is pertinent to mention here that
provincial government also knocked the door of Peshawar High Court in
the past against the increase in power tariff . The case had been under
hearing for almost two years. Online
