{"id":51045,"date":"2024-10-04T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=51045"},"modified":"2024-10-04T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:49:45","slug":"pakistan-recovers-rs-119-79-billion-in-crack-down-against-electricity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistan-recovers-rs-119-79-billion-in-crack-down-against-electricity-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan recovers Rs. 119.79 billion in crack down against electricity theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s nationwide crackdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/iesco-single-phase-electricity-meter-fee-update-for-september-2024\/\">electricity theft<\/a> is yielding impressive results, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad\/iesco-notifies-power-shutdown-programme-for-tomorrow\/\">Power Division<\/a> recovering a staggering Rs119.79 billion from individuals involved in power theft.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative, launched by the government and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/no-decision-yet-about-imran-khans-military-trial-govts-counsel-tells-ihc\/\">military leadership<\/a> to revitalize the country&#8217;s economy, has led to the arrest of 85,572 electricity thieves since its inception<\/p>\n<p>Between September 24 and October 2, authorities collected over one billion rupees from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/electricity-bill-update-for-consumers-upto-200-units-from-october\/\">electricity thieves<\/a> in major cities, including Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, Sukkur, Quetta, Hyderabad, and Islamabad. During this period, 242 power thieves were also apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown was announced on September 6 last year by the caretaker federal government to tackle the massive circular debt in the power sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Power Minister, 10 distribution companies face annual losses of Rs589 billion, primarily due to electricity theft and non-payment of bills. This issue sparked country-wide protests, some of which turned violent, following inflated power bills.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery of such a significant amount and the arrest of thousands of electricity thieves demonstrate the government&#8217;s commitment to addressing this critical issue and restoring economic stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s nationwide crackdown on electricity theft is yielding impressive results, with the Power Division recovering a staggering Rs119.79 billion from individuals involved in power theft. This initiative, launched by the government and military leadership to revitalize the country&#8217;s economy, has led to the arrest of 85,572 electricity thieves since its inception Between September 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[20055,22657],"class_list":["post-51045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-electricity-theft","tag-power-divison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51045","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=51045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51063,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51045\/revisions\/51063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}