Only 47% of Pakistanis pay electricity bills

The government of Pakistan was able to collect payments from only 47% of consumers in the last 11 months.

Thus it has failed to collect Rs495 billion worth of electricity bills in the last eleven months, taking

The unrecovered amount is two times more than what the government claims is the circular debt, which has caused massive load-shedding across the country, leading to riots across Punjab and Khyber-Pakthunkhwa.

According to a fact sheet, from July 2011 to May 2012, all the distribution companies, including Karachi Electric Supply Company, billed consumers Rs895.3 billion while collection remained at onlyRs400.8 billion, which is 47% of the total billing.

The low collection will make it difficult for power distribution companies to payback power generation companies and aggravate the power crisis.

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