Anti Theft Campaign Update 21 November 2023

Have affected additional saving of PKR 55 Billion as of yesterday i.e. in less than 73 days 46 billion from 7th of September till 31st of October and PKR 9 billion in November so far. November data includes detection charges and arrears recovery but does not include financial impact of theft reduction. In this recovery effort, LESCO leads with 10 billion, followed by PESCO with 9 billion. In the process, we have arrested 29541 delinquent consumers and 20 employees. Have suspended another 272 employees including officers. We have also raised detection charges of PKR 5 billion plus. Most of the theft variance in large swathes of Indus plain is associated with cooling load and local sense of impunity. Therefore as winter approaches, monthly payoff of the anti-theft campaign compared to previous year would fall as incentive for theft is even otherwise not very high.