KARACHI, Oct 9: The adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Finance, M. A. Jalil, on Tuesday presided over a meeting to resolve the ongoing row between the KESC and the town municipal administrations over the payment of electricity bills.

The Saddar town nazim informed the adviser that the power utility carried cutting of roads without paying any charges to the relevant towns but kept insisting on the payment of arrears of bills.

He suggested that the KESC should either pay road-cutting charges or deduct the same from the utility bills. A KESC official said that the city government had allowed the KESC to carry out road-cutting activities without paying any charges.

The Saddar Town nazim argued that the CDGK permission would have been valid for the roads like M.A. Jinnah and I.I. Chundrigar roads but not for the ones that fell in the jurisdiction of Saddar Town.

Other town nazims also complained of faulty streetlights in their towns but they still continued receiving electric bills for the same.

Mr Jalil directed the KESC to come up with an amicable solution to this problem by the end of this month. He also asked the town nazims to pay arrears of electric bills by the end of this month.—PPI