No deadline to end load shedding: Kh Asif

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Re: No deadline to end load shedding: Kh Asif

@Ali_Syed

There are some issues which need to be rectified, e.g. Balochis keep on pointing the rates offered to them for the gas produced (are the lowest) where as Punjab (not surprisingly) gets the highest.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

After much delay the prices were raised but still the average well-head prices are: Balochistan Rs 66.34, Punjab Rs 162.93 and Sindh Rs 142.57; interestingly, the 12.5 percent royalty fixed for gas drawn from the field area is based on ‘well-head value’ so Punjab gets more from less while Balochistan less from more. The injustice becomes even more apparent when the percentage of production and own usage is seen, which is Balochistan 40 and two percent, Sindh 54 and 36 percent and Punjab six and 44 percent respectively.

i don’t know how that rate is set. I’m just guessing that probably it will have something to do with scarcity of gas and production cost involved in certain areas. since gas is least available in Punjab, hence costs more, gas is in abundance in Balochistan, hence costs less.

As for consumption ratio is concerned, even if you shut down all industry in Punjab, just its household usage of gas will be more than collective use of gas in Balochistan in all sectors. Punjab alone has 60% of Pakistan’s population.

But if there are any unjust criteria of setting the “well-head prices” (never knew this term before) it must be addressed and made acceptable to everyone.

But just by quoting figures about consumption and production of resources by provinces, not considering other numbers involved we mostly give wrong picture of one province taking share of other provinces unjustly.