Web Desk: Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the Punjab government has given relief to people on electricity bills with its own resources.
In the federal cabinet meeting, the chief minister said that the relief given by the Punjab government to the power unit is the money of the Punjab government and there is no involvement of the federal government in it.
He said that today inflation is at the lowest level in three years, which fell from 38 percent to eleven and a half percent.
A staff level agreement has been reached with the IMF, the IMF will have to work day and night to meet the revenue and fiscal objectives given, reduce losses in the energy sector.
The Prime Minister said that we have announced a three-month relief to domestic consumers by cutting 50 billion rupees in the PSD budget, which has benefited 86 percent of Pakistan’s domestic consumers.
It plans to give 28,000 solar panels worth 70 billion rupees to the Balochistan government in partnership, in which the federal government will give 55 billion rupees to reduce electricity theft.
He said that a few days ago, the Punjab government announced a relief of 14 rupees per unit for two months of electricity for a maximum of 500 units from its resources, for which it allocated 45 billion rupees from the its development funds add every share, it was given as a gift by the Punjab government to the people of its province.
The Prime Minister said that, unfortunately, negative things have been heard about this relief. The KPK Minister said that the federal government has given relief to the Punjab government, but avoid politics and do not distort the facts.
He said that we have to take the IMF on board and make decisions for the country
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