Mufti Ismail: Former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said that the government gets electricity for Rs9.70 and is adamant about dealing it for Rs50. The burden isn’t on the electricity consumers, but on the government. It wants to vend electricity for Rs50. Still, also why buy electricity for Rs50? If the consumer can induce electricity for Rs10 himself.
Mufti Ismail, In an interview, Miftah Ismail said that the government says that consumers using solar are a burden on us, the government has said that deals duty will be levied on 400 units. The government said that they will abate deals duty on the units they buy, the government says that they will charge Rs9 deals duty on a unit of Rs44, the government says that there is a burden of Rs150 billion from net metering. Miftah Ismail said that he has seen the statistics of SEPRA last time, net metering electricity worth Rs40 billion was bought, the government says that the domestic consumer who isn’t buying precious electricity is a burden. He said that the people of Pakistan aren’t your slaves, they are citizens then, the government should make electricity cheaper, why should consumers buy precious electricity, mobile phones have also ended the monopoly of landline phones. Miftah Ismail said that now large-scale electricity generation will end, people will install solar, in the unborn people will install solar on their homes and distribute electricity to neighbors, the government is killing middle-class citizens with its measures.