He also acknowledged the delay in coming up with the power sector and state-owned enterprise reforms. Is it the first time we are hearing about data discrepancies in government? For instance, there has always been a major difference between the industrial establishment’s data reported by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics and DISCOs, which has never been reconciled. Similarly, on circular debt, there is a huge variation between what’s reported by the Power Division versus what’s claimed by NEPRA. As George Bernard Shaw said, “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”Published in The Express Tribune, December 27th, 2020.

Source: The Express Tribune December 29, 2020 04:18 UTC