{"id":44823,"date":"2024-08-13T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44823"},"modified":"2024-08-13T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:16:21","slug":"power-division-recovers-rs107bln-in-nationwide-crackdown-on-power-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/power-division-recovers-rs107bln-in-nationwide-crackdown-on-power-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Power division recovers Rs107bln  in nationwide crackdown on power theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/powerful-earthquake-hits-japans-southern-coast-triggers-tsunami-warning\/\">Power Division has recovered over Rs107 billion<\/a> in a nationwide crackdown on power theft. This operation, initiated by the Pakistani government and supported by military measures, is yielding positive outcomes in efforts to stabilize the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, details reveal that more than Rs107 billion has been recovered from individuals involved in power theft, and over 83,000 electricity thieves have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In August alone, institutions collected over one billion rupees from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/sheikh-hasina-will-return-to-bangladesh-for-elections-her-son-says\/\">electricity thieves in Lahore,<\/a> Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan, and Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on September 6, the then-caretaker <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/federal-govt-splits-pcaa-into-three-entities\/\">federal government announced a nationwide crackdown<\/a> to address electricity theft and reduce the escalating circular debt in the power sector.<\/p>\n<p>The power minister noted that Pakistan\u2019s ten distribution companies are facing an annual loss of Rs589 billion, primarily due to electricity theft and nonpayment of bills.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in power bills has led to nationwide protests, with demonstrations from Karachi to Khyber, some of which have turned violent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Power Division has recovered over Rs107 billion in a nationwide crackdown on power theft. This operation, initiated by the Pakistani government and supported by military measures, is yielding positive outcomes in efforts to stabilize the country&#8217;s economy. Moreover, details reveal that more than Rs107 billion has been recovered from individuals involved in power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[20055,20387,12222],"class_list":["post-44823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-electricity-theft","tag-nationwide-crackdown","tag-power-division"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44825,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44823\/revisions\/44825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}