SIALKOT: As many as two days have left to end the running fiscal year 2014-15 and the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) has miserably failed to recover Rs 6.25 billion from its two chronic and big defaulters namely the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Sialkot Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA).
According to the senior Gepco officials, the AJK government had been lying defaulter of Rs 6.20 billion for the last five years and despite the repeated notices issued by Gepco and the Federal Ministry for Water and Power, the AJK government has not yet paid its prolonged delayed arrears to Gepco.
On the other hand, Sialkot Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) had also been lying a big defaulter of Rs 45 million and Sialkot TMA has not yet cleared its dues despite the repeated negotiations held between the Gepco Sialkot and TMA Sialkot officials, in this regard.
Gepco has formulated special recovery teams with the special tasks of disconnecting all the electricity connections of all the small and big defaulters for prolonged non-payment of their outstanding dues.
On the other hand, Chief Executive Gepco Gujranwala Zahur Ahmed Chohan told Customs Today that Gepco has yet recovered Rs 3.75 billion out of total amount of Rs 5.5 billion from the other small and big defaulters during the ongoing recovery campaign. He added that the Gepco has started disconnecting the electricity connections of these defaulters in the first phase of the action taken against them by Gepco, in this regard…#
