The bills of thousands of rupees made the citizens scream
Karachi: The electric bills drowned out the screams of the citizens. All the affairs of life were disturbed and the budget of the whole house was destroyed.
The heavy bills made the citizens sick, to pay for which the citizens started selling household items.
In front of the offices of K Electric, the citizens started pleading that installments should be made, we could not pay the bills.
Along with the poor, the white-clad also became unable to pay the electricity bills.
Users of less than 200 units are also paying bills of thousands of rupees. The situation will worsen after the increase of four rupees per unit by Nepra.
Additional amount is being charged in the name of tariff adjustment in bills. The electricity bill has become a nightmare for the citizens which every citizen has to bear every month.
According to the details, the rapid increase in the price of electricity has disrupted all aspects of the citizens’ lives. The bills of thousands of rupees have raised the cries of the citizens because of no increase in income but the speed with which the electricity rates are being increased. Due to this, the ability of the citizens to pay the bills has ended.
Citizens started selling household goods even gold and silver to pay bills because electricity is very important for life.
Thousands of citizens reached the K Electric offices (IBC Center) to pay their bill installments. The citizens wailed with tearful eyes and said that there is one person who earns in the house, the salary is 30 thousand rupees and the electricity bill has come to 18 thousand rupees, how should they pay.
Ration is not available in the houses, they cannot live in a small closed house without electricity. They have come to settle the bill, similar heart-wrenching stories were told by the citizens of K Electric offices.
Many seniors were standing in the lines, many women had come to make installments. Since July 27, the increase of more than seven rupees has disrupted the entire system of the valves by consuming less electricity.
Those using less than two units are charged Rs 22 per unit along with Fuel Addition, General Sales Tax, Flan Fee, Electric City Duty, Additional Surcharge. These are the taxes paid by a customer using only 143 units. This customer has used extremely less electricity in a month which is 5 thousand 314 rupees.
The new thing introduced in the bill is tariff adjustment. An adjustment of Rs.400 has been imposed on the customer who uses only one and a half hundred units.
Similarly, a small family consuming less than 300 units of electricity has to pay Rs.27 per unit and other taxes are separate.
Kabul has more than 10,000 users using only 200 improvements, in which all the same taxes have been imposed.
38 rupees per unit is being charged from the user of 600 units while the bill is more than 40 thousand rupees.
In this, six thousand rupees have been taken only in the name of tariff adjustment. Such taxes have raised the cry of the middle class and white-collar citizens, while the alarming news of Nepra’s hike in electricity prices has sparked further concern among the citizens.
Citizens have appealed to reduce the electricity rate, it is not possible to pay the heavy bill at all. The citizens of Karachi are suffering from this painful situation.
On the other hand, the electric company issues a bill of millions of rupees accusing anyone of electricity theft. Citizens have suffered from various diseases including depression due to electricity bills.
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