Electricity Tariff Increase: Plea to CJP

From Good Governance Forum
to Registrar Supreme Court
date Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM
subject Electricity tariff increase: Plea to CJP for suo motu notice

5th Oct 2009

Hon'ble Chief Justice of Pakistan
Islamabad


The electricity supply corporations in Pakistan have announced increase in electricity tariff of six percent from Oct 2009, twelve percent from Jan 2010 and six percent from April 2010. The cumulative impact is estimated at 28-30 percent.

The people of Pakistan are practically forced to bear the cost of the inefficiencies of the corporations on an ongoing basis.

As the Chairman of the Good Governance Forum, ranked at 3rd position out of 8.2 million listings on Google as of today, I submit to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to kindly take suo motu notice of the increase and direct the corporations to present their case before the Supreme Court of Pakistan for examination by the relevant experts as well as civil society organizations.

Good Governance Forum would be more than willing to assist the court in this request.


Mumtaz A. Piracha
Chairman
Good Governance Forum
Pakistan
Cell: 0300-2265424