Cabinet committee approves uniform electricity tariff for SEZs

Islamabad: The government has approved a new system for the provision of electricity and a uniform tariff for the Special Economic Zones and Industrial Estates to ensure industrial development in the country.

The approval was granted at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy, which met in Islamabad today with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the chair.

The meeting further allowed single-point power supply to Industrial Estates and Special Industrial Zones and their management to provide self-connection, bill collection and other matters.

Under this system, the interference of officials of the power distribution companies in the special industrial zones and industrial estates has come to an end. In this regard, a specific operations and management mechanism is being evolved as the Power Division and NEPRA will start implementing this mechanism in next three months.

Under the system, the zone developers will not require any additional license to supply power to the industries in the zones.