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00:00First of all, how much will be the bill of the person who used to use 50 units, and how much will be the bill of the person who used 100 units, and so on?
00:13Look, the thing is that the electricity bill in Pakistan has increased by more than double in the last two years.
00:21When the government of PTI ended in April 2022, the electricity bill was Rs. 22-23.
00:28Now, the electricity bill has increased by Rs. 60, so now the new tariff will be of Rs. 70-72.
00:36But there was one thing in this, that the small number of people who used to use 50-200 units, there were two types of people, one protected and one non-protected.
00:50The protected customer used to get 3 units for Rs. 3.5, and the non-protected customer used to get 11-12.
00:58Now, the agreement that has been made with the IMF, and this is more than 50% of the population of Pakistan, which comes in this, who use the least number of units.
01:07The IMF agreement that has been made recently, the IMF has written to the government that this subsidy will be removed from all these tariffs, and they will be provided with electricity at the actual rate.
01:21Now, if the actual rate is Rs. 30 or Rs. 35, then you can guess that the protected one can increase by 10 times, and the non-protected one can increase by more than double.
01:31This will be a very big problem, and I was just listening to the people you were talking to before me, they were talking about poverty.
01:41These are the people who were under poverty before.
01:44If this happens, then it will be a very big financial problem.
01:48The IMF has said that instead of providing electricity to all these people, you should provide them with electricity through a non-profit income support program.
01:56Now, the question is that there are only 8.3 million people in the non-profit income program.
02:03The population is 25 crores, and more than 12 crores of people are below the poverty line, so it will not cover everyone.
02:10So what will happen to the rest of these crores of people?
02:13So this can become a very big social problem, which will be linked to the financial problem.
02:21Okay, Mr. Muzammil Hassan, electricity has become expensive, so inflation will also increase.
02:25Now, if inflation increases, then for the common man, where do you see the situation going?
02:30Look, now that electricity is increasing, then the issue of inflation will come at a time when there will be some money left to buy something.
02:37Okay? This is the first thing.
02:39Because now I know personally that those who earn 1 lakh, 1.5 lakhs, 2 lakhs, their 70,000, 80,000, 80,000 are only getting electricity bills.
02:47They have to pay the rent of the house after that.
02:51Now, if your salary is over in the rent and electricity of the house, then how will you buy?
02:55So people's purchasing will be a big problem.
02:59On the other hand, the people who make factories, their price will increase in making them.
03:07So on the one hand, the price of their goods will increase, but if their goods are not purchased, then the cost of shutting down the factory will increase even more.
03:17This is a government that increases the price on one side, so it does not take into account its effects.
03:23Whether it is of the factory or of a common man, it is very important to take into account the situation.
03:29And in this regard, the provincial governments will also have to see that if they put this burden on the loyal government, then how can they share that burden with the common man.
03:42Mr. Asim, this raises a question for you, how can the provincial governments share this burden? Please explain.
03:52The budget of the loyal government at the moment is transferred to 58-58.5 percent to the provinces.
04:00The largest province of Pakistan's population is Punjab and the second is Sindh.
04:04If these two are combined, more than 75 percent of the loyal income is transferred.
04:10But we are seeing that they are less inclined to give relief to the public, and more government employees are spent on these things, or such programs that do not benefit the public directly.
04:23Now these provinces should invest their own electricity locally.
04:27For example, let me give an example of the KP government.
04:29In the next three months, three new power plants will be added to the KP government, and two more will be added by next year, which will cost 5-7 rupees per unit.
04:38Now our problem is that we do not have a wire, a transmission line, where we can pick up the electricity and deliver it to a common man.
04:45Now we are starting to work on that too.
04:47On the other hand, your budget is so big, so you identify people in that budget.
04:54As you have seen, in Ramadan, the KP government gave a family of 10,000 people.
04:59Approximately 10 lakh people.
05:01Similarly, Punjab gave a sack of ration for only 3,500 rupees.
05:05Now we will have to make a program for the entire year after Ramadan,
05:09that how to help the people of our weak class, how to help them in their livelihood.
05:15You have to increase their income in bulk, if you cannot help them in their electricity bill.
05:23Now we are bringing a scheme of 1 lakh solar plants in the KP government.
05:29Those who use up to 200 units, their electricity bill will be very low.
05:36Inshallah, after the holidays, we will complete our policy and announce it.