Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday announced a three-month relief period for lifeline consumers of electricity whose consumption remains below 200 units per month.
A post on the X account of state broadcaster PTV News said: “The government will give a discount of Rs50 billion to the electricity lifeline consumers in July, August and September. For three months, 25 million consumers of the country will benefit from the government’s relief.”
It added that the move would benefit “94 per cent of the country’s domestic consumers” of electricity.
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