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What AJK covers

The AJK Electricity Department supplies Azad Jammu & Kashmir: Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Kotli, Bagh, Rawalakot, Bhimber, Poonch, Sudhnoti, Neelum, Haveli and Jhelum Valley. The territory is almost entirely mountainous, from the Neelum valley in the north to the comparatively developed Mirpur–Bhimber plain in the south.

The important structural point is that this is a government department, not a corporatised distribution company. LESCO, PESCO and the rest were created in 1998 as public limited companies licensed by NEPRA; AJK's supply remained a departmental function of the AJK government. That difference is not cosmetic — it affects how the tariff is set, how complaints are escalated, and why AJK sits slightly apart from the rest of the national billing arrangements even though its bills are generated through the same PITC system.

Mirpur is the commercial centre and has an unusually strong overseas connection, with a large diaspora and a corresponding pattern of properties that sit empty for parts of the year. Muzaffarabad is the administrative capital. The northern valleys are sparsely populated and hard to reach, with the access constraints that implies.

How AJK came about

Electricity in Azad Jammu & Kashmir is supplied by a department of the AJK government rather than by a NEPRA-licensed distribution company, which is the structural difference that sets it apart from every other territory covered on this site. Bills are produced through the PITC system used nationally, which is why an AJK bill looks like a mainland one.

Mangla Dam, one of Pakistan's largest hydropower stations, sits in Mirpur district. As with Tarbela in Hazara, its output goes to the national system rather than to local consumers directly, and its presence does not translate into a lower local tariff.

• Consumers: 804,961 as of April 2025 — 703,938 domestic, 86,174 commercial, 7,081 government and semi-government, 2,613 industrial and 5,155 others, up from 762,029 at the end of June 2023.
• Governance: Still a government department, not corporatised. It operates under the AJ&K Rules of Business 1985 (revised 2021) and holds no NEPRA licence, because NEPRA licenses distribution companies rather than provincial departments.

Reading a AJK bill

AJK bills are generated through the same PITC billing system as the mainland companies, so the layout is familiar: reference number at the top-left, readings panel with previous and current meter readings, charges down the right ending in the two totals.

The reference number format is the practical difference. Some older AJK bills carry a shorter number than the 14 digits standard on the mainland, which is why a lookup can fail even when the number is copied correctly. Enter it exactly as printed rather than padding it, and if an older number does not work, use one from a recent bill.

Paying a AJK bill

In Mirpur, Muzaffarabad and the larger towns the usual channels are available — JazzCash, Easypaisa, bank apps and counter payment at designated branches. Mirpur's banking coverage is unusually good for a town of its size, largely because of the volume of overseas remittances handled there.

In the northern valleys, wallet agents do most of the work. Counter payments post the same working day; wallet and app payments generally take one to two working days to reflect.

Outages and load management on AJK

Terrain and weather dominate. Winter snow in the Neelum valley, Leepa and the higher parts of Poonch brings down lines and closes the roads crews need, while the monsoon brings landslides across the same routes. Restoration in the upper valleys depends on access far more than on the repair itself.

The region is also seismically active, and the 2005 earthquake caused extensive damage to infrastructure across Muzaffarabad and the surrounding districts that shaped much of what has been rebuilt since.

• Where the schedule is published: The department does not publish a load-management schedule at a public URL we could verify. Its section-level complaint offices are the practical route.