The trend of non-payment of electricity bills has increased in the country as currently the electricity defaulters number has reached to 74,000.
All this occurred owing to bad performance of Nawaz Sharif’s government as it failed to recover Rs 632 billion from the defaulters. The Ministry of Energy report 2015 revealed that some 73,400 consumers are defaulters besides public departments.
The number of defaulters reached 40,000 in 2013 and 45,000 in 2014, in 2015 the number of defaulters was 50,000 while in 2016 it has touched the level of 57,600. When former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified on the basis of corruption in Panama case by the Supreme Court the number of defaulters in the country was over 73,000.
The report added that the number of defaulters was over 183,000 in three years in which government institutions are also included. It is worth mentioning here that the government had disconnected the electricity of some 537,000 defaulters. Due to non-payment of electricity bills, the poverty ratio in the country has enhanced and power tariff has increased too.
