PM seeks urgent report on inflated electricity bills

ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday while taking strict notice of public complaints about inflated electricity bills, directed the authorities concerned to submit an urgent report and recommendations on the matter.
The prime minister, chairing an urgent meeting to discuss the complaints on the inflated bills, resolved not to sit idle until the public complaints were addressed.
“Khadim-e-Pakistan is answerable to his people for resolution of their grievances. I am committed to speaking truth to my people,” he remarked.
Federal Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir, Special Assistant to PM Ahad Cheema and relevant senior officers attended the meeting.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday directed for expediting the pace of rescue and relief activities in the flood-affected areas and the immediate shifting of the people trapped in flood-hit areas.
The prime minister reviewed the flood situation in Balochistan province triggered by recent rainfall.
The meeting was attended by Chief Minister Balochistan Mir Abdul Qaddus Bizenjo, Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal and Minister for Economic Affairs Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and other relevant authorities.
The chief minister apprised the prime minister in detail about the damages caused by floods in the province and the ongoing rescue and relief operation.
The prime minister also directed for making of arrangements to provide Flood Relief cash of Rs25,000 per affected family, besides provision of tents, edibles and safe drinking water.
He directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Government of Balochistan and Ministry of Planning to take emergency measures.
He said that no leniency or suspension in the relief activities of flood-hit areas would be acceptable.
The prime minister stressed that no efforts should be spared in extending immediate help to the flood-affected people till the completion of the combined survey and their rehabilitation. He also asked the relevant authorities to restore damaged infrastructure in the flood-hit areas to ensure a supply of relief items.