‘Nepra not playing role to end power outages in Sindh’

SUKKUR: Sindh Minister for Information, Transport and Labour Nasir Hussain Shah has said that the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has not played its positive and actual role for the resolution of power load shedding in Sindh.

He was speaking to journalists during a press conference held at the residence of the PPP leader and former MPA Syed Ali Nawaz Shah along with Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal here on Sunday night.

He said that the issue of power loadshedding could be resolved in Sindh, including Karachi, but due to advertent inflexibility and delaying tactics of the federal government, it was still in the doldrums. 

He said that there were three to four power projects in Sindh and even the Nooriabad power plant could resolve Karachi’s 80 percent power shortage problem but Nepra and the federal government deviated from giving an adequate tariff which was agreed before. 

He said that the tariff given by the Federation to these private and public power companies was not acceptable to them. He said that if these companies were given actual tariff, the problem of power loadshedding could be solved.