KARACHI: SITE Association of Industry has said K-Electric was not billing the industrial sector as per SRO12(I)/2019 and urged the concerned authorities to immediately issue necessary notification to implement the zero rated industries support package.[the_ad id=”31605″]President SITE Saleem Parekh pointed out that after the issuance of SRO 12(I)/2019, HESCO, FESCO and LESCO are billing industrial consumers at the rate of 7.5 cents/kwH on total bill, while K-Electric is billing 7.5cents/kwH on variable charges and after that includes fixed charges, government duties and taxes. As a result of which K-Electric bills are higher as compared to other distribution companies.
He expressed concerns that due to K-Electric billing procedure, production costs of K-Electric consumers had increased as compared to other DISCOS and it was impossible to continue production and exports orders were at stake.
As per K-Electric version they are in constant touch with relevant Ministry to get clarification so that they can bill industrial consumers at par with other DISCOS and have also assured to refund additional amount charged since January 2019.
Parekh urged the Ministry to issue relevant notification and instruct all distribution companies to revise their billing with effect from January 01, 2019, and adjust according to SRO so that export industries’ production cost would be reduced.