SIALKOT: The Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) has geared up efforts to recover Rs 7 billion from its big defaulter namely the government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
According to the senior Gepco officials, the AJK government had been the defaulter of Rs 7 billion for the last five and half years and despite the repeated notices issued by the Gepco and the Federal Ministry for Water and Power, the AJK government has not yet paid its prolonged delayed arrears.
Gepco has formulated special recovery teams with the special tasks of disconnecting all the electricity connections of all the small and big defaulters for non-payment of their outstanding dues.
Meanwhile, Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) has finalized the lists of chronic defaulters, including several government departments and has issued them the final notices to recover the outstanding dues of Rs 7 billion by giving a week-long deadline to clear their outstanding dues.
According to the senior Gepco officials, the Gepco has given the special recovery targets to the Superintendent Engineers (SEs) of all the four Gepco circles to ensure the recovery of the arrears at the earliest.
They said that the last warning has also been issued to these chronic defaulters including several government departments, private commercial and non commercial organizations, as the Gepco has divided these defaulters into three categories. All the governmental and semi government departments have been placed into A category of the defaulters, the non-payers of the running months’ domestic and commercial electricity bills have been kept in B category, while the old defaulters have been including the C category of the Gepco defaulters…#
