A fixed charge of 400 rupees has been imposed on domestic consumers instead of the 57% basic tariff, so that there is no burden, it was necessary to increase the gas prices to eliminate the deficit, caretaker energy minister Muhammad Ali said.
Caretaker Energy Minister Muhammad Ali has said that after the increase in gas prices, the maximum bill of domestic consumers will come to 1300, instead of the basic tariff, a fixed charge of Rs. According to the details, caretaker energy minister Muhammad Ali says that it was necessary to increase the gas prices to eliminate the deficit of the country's gas sector.
57% basic tariff has not been imposed on domestic consumers, a fixed charge of 400 rupees has been imposed instead of the basic tariff, so that consumers do not have a high bill burden. He said that the tariff of consumers will increase according to their usage, there has been no increase in gas prices on ovens.
Gas prices were not increased in the past, if they were, we would not have to increase so much today. It should be noted that according to media reports, the monthly fixed charges for gas consumers have been increased from Rs.10 to Rs.2,000. 2 thousand per month as fixed charges.
According to the details, the federal government has not only approved the increase in the gas tariff for the gas consumers across the country, but has also significantly increased the fixed charges collected from the gas consumers. According to the Petroleum Division, the federal government has approved the application of increase in gas tariff and fixed chargers on the proposal of Ogra. According to this decision, customers using 0.25 to 0.9 cubic meters of gas, also known as protected customers, will pay fixed charges of Rs 400 per month.
While non-protected gas users will pay fixed charges ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000 per month. Consumers using gas from 0.25 to 1.5 hectare cubic meters will pay fixed charges of Rs 1000 per month, while gas consumers from 2 to 4 hectare cubic meters and above will pay fixed charges of Rs 2000 per month. According to the Ministry of Energy, the increase in gas prices was done as per OGRA's summary, the cabinet had approved the summary for the increase in gas prices on October 23, the federal cabinet yesterday sent the summary back to the ECC, which Later, the Economic Coordination Committee re-approved the gas prices in the meeting and now the supervising federal cabinet has also approved the increase in gas prices.
According to government sources, due to non-increase in gas prices, the revolving debt has reached Rs 2100 billion, the last time gas prices were increased two and a half years ago. The decision to increase gas prices was difficult for the caretaker government, as all subsidies were withdrawn due to the IMF's involvement in the program. If the government had not increased the gas prices, the revolving credit would have increased by Rs 400 billion.