IK should think through before asking for things. Now he can’t blame federal government for load shedding in coming months since now his govt will be responsible for Pesco.
PM Nawaz approves move to hand PESCO over to K-P govt – The Express Tribune
The Express Tribune
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday gave his go-ahead for the hand over of Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, Express News reported.
The PM will write a letter to K-P Chief Minister Pervez Khattak in a few days as an official notification inviting the provincial government to take over the reins of the power distribution company.
Express News correspondent Khalid Mehmood reported that Nawaz Sharif is acting according to the 18th Amendment, which allows provincial bodies to oversee generation and distribution of electricity.
**The PM also plans to place the responsibility of all finances including revenue collection and the recovery of dues with the K-P government.
The move comes days after PTI chief Imran Khan had said that the K-P government would eliminate power theft and generate cheap electricity for the people if Pesco was handed over to K-P.**
Earlier, Federal Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif had said that immediate transfer of control was doable.
“Yes it [transfer of control] can be done immediately. He [Imran] can take control of Pesco and handle the distribution of electricity and recovery,” he had said.
“This is not about us failing. Over the past three, four months, there has been a reduction in line losses and theft. We do not claim there has been radical change, but there has been reduction, there has been improvement.”