RAWALPINDI:  The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has sent summary to the Punjab government for enhancing tariff for domestic consumers by 40 per cent and commercial consumers by 100 per cent.The increased tariff, if approved, will be effective from next financial year. Wasa has not ...

HAFIZABADWhile expressing resentment over arbitrary and uncalled for hike in power tariff by Rs5.82 per unit, local businessmen, industrialists and housewives have called upon the upcoming Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to take prompt and stern action against NEPRA and others for their ...

SIALKOTExporters, manufacturers, vender industry and traders have expressed deep concern over the increase in electricity tariff and termed it stabbing the already sinking industrial sector in the back.Sialkot which is totally export-oriented city and hub of cottage industry has been facing 18 to ...

lahore - With the highest cost of doing business in the region, the tanning sector is already under pressure and decision of Nepra to increase tariff by Rs 5.80 per unit will prove last nail in the coffin of this industry.The industry is already facing loadshedding of 8 to 10 hours which has added ...

lahore - The trade and industry on Friday severely criticised the caretaker government for making a huge increase of Rs5.82 in per unit price of electricity and termed it an anti business decision aimed at sabotaging the popularity of PML-N government. They said that at a time when the business ...

islamabad - National Transmission Dispatch Company (NTDC) has pleaded the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to set Rs6.41/unit as advance tariff of 640 MW Azad Pattan Hydropower Project.Since the hydropower project is located in AJ&K, which is outside Nepra’s ...

Islamabad- The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has increased the electricity tariff by Rs1.35/unit on account of monthly fuel price adjustment.NEPRA hearing was held over the request of Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) under its vice chairman Khwaja Muhammad Naeem in the ...

National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved increase in power tariff by Rs 1.34 per unit under fuel adjustment.Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) had sought increase of Rs 1.37 per unit, stating that production of 6,000MW exceeded Rs 54 billion due to additional usage of ...

islamabad -  ahmad ahmadani - In a bid to facilitate development of alternate sources of energy in the country, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has set Rs13.1998/kWh fresh upfront tariff for wind power generation for the delivery of electricity to the power purchaser.The ...

karachi - Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has alleged that NEPRA without considering KW&SB as the public service institution had given a verdict in favour of private commercial company, KESC and allowed the commercial tariff of electricity charges from the water board. In a statement, MD ...

islamabad - Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has sought 165 per cent hike in the prices of hydel power from NEPRA while the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) has also asked to approve Rs 2.20/unit increase in electricity tariff on account of monthly fuel price adjustment.At ...

In this new era of economic trade-offs or ‘imperfect solutions’ (as some economists are calling it), the policy choice on which way to tilt, or to opt for a combination of policy choices from opposing spectrums, largely depends on the skill and vision of the economic managers. At a time ...

National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved raise in power tariff by 63 paisas per unit.Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) had filed application seeking increase in power tariff by 67 paisas per unit  and its hearing took place under member tariff Naeem Khawaja here ...

LAHORE - The German Ambassador Dr Cyrill Nunn has said that in four weeks time Pakistan will be able to benefit from preferential trade arrangement that would allow low-tariff exports to the European Union.The Ambassador was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday. LCCI ...

ISLAMABAD - As part of continued efforts for consumer protection, PTA has issued “Tariff Awareness Guide”. As per official statement, continuously increasing multiplicity and complexity of tariff packages and promotions, especially for the prepaid cellular mobile services had ...

FAISALABAD - The 16 per cent hike in electricity tariff is a bomb prior to budget and it will have disastrous fallout on the national economy and textile exports in particular, said the chairman of the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association.“The Government is systematically increasing the ...

This is with reference to the news item ‘Two percent rise in power tariff on the cards’ (May 1). It is said that electricity tariff has been increased by 12 percent in order to meet the requirements of the World Bank and ADB for securing $2bn which is related with the circular debt of ...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNAs have moved two separate adjournment motions in the National Assembly against increase in prices of petroleum products and electricity tariff.In the first adjournment motion moved by Rana Tanvir Hussain, Anusha Rehman, Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry, ...

The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday notified its decision to allow a 39 percent increase in the tariff of power companies on account of fuel adjustment charges.The decision was announced in a statement from Islamabad after a ‘public hearing’ on ...

ISLAMABAD - AHMAD AHMADANI :  Though KESC had submitted wrong rates of gas and furnace oil to the regulatory authority yet the Nepra in a bid to reduce 19paisa per unit in the tariff of the company has given its approval in this regard.The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority’s ...

ISLAMABAD - Owing to increase in electricity generation cost, Nepra, while raising the tariff of Iesco and Pesco, has jacked up per unit cost of electricity between Rs1 to Rs6.50 thus added woes and worries for hard-pressed power consumers. It is learnt that Nepra has given its approval to further ...

ISLAMABAD - Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCOI) decided to rationalise tariff regime with the aim to attract foreign investment in country vital to give impetus to the overall economic progress in the country.Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani chaired the meeting of CCOI here at the PM ...

AHMAD AHMADANIISLAMABAD - NEPRA has rejected 20 per cent monthly increase in electricity price sought by the Ministry of Water and Power under the off head ‘fuel adjustment’ thus ending the Ministry’s plans of rubbing more salt on consumers’ wounds in smoke.While declining ...

JHANG - The representatives of various religious, trade and political organisations have rejected raise in power and gas tariffs and ‘oppressive’ taxes levied on the poverty-hit masses, demanding their immediate withdrawal and warned the govt of protests sit-ins and rallies. ...

SADIQABAD - A large number of transport workers, CNG dealers and employees staged a protest demonstration against partial closure and increase in CNG tariff, suspending vehicular movement for hours by setting fire to old tyres at Adda Khanpur, tehsil Rahim Yar Khan. Talking to the media, the All ...

NANKANA SAHIB - The Proposed substantial increase in domestic and industrial gas tariffs was condemned by the public across the district on Thursday. Traders, lawyers, politicians and religious persons and civil society members condemned the proposal increase in domestic gas tariff up to 13.98 ...

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company’s Shareholders’ Association on Wednesday demanded the NEPRA to reject the power distribution company’s request for increase in power tariff in the name of fuel adjustment charges.In a letter addressed to National Electric Power ...

ISLAMABAD - Power consumers of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) Ltd should get ready to bear an electric blow as the company has requested the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to approve a hike of Rs 1.16 per unit in the rate of electricity. The KESC has requested the ...

ISLAMABAD - Ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has dropped a power bomb on the consumers by jacking up power tariff leading to hike Rs. 1.77 per unit electricity rates for the month of September, it was learnt. National Electric Power Regulatory ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - The Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) has pleaded to the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to approve Rs1.76 per unit hike in power tariff, media reported on Tuesday. NEPRA authorities said the tariff hike was sought for fuel adjustments in September, ...