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KESC admits to daily load shedding of three hours: KESC, PPP Karachi Coordination Committee to meet every month

KARACHI: The Karachi Electricity Supply Company (KESC) has admitted to daily load shedding of three hours.

As per details, a joint meeting of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Karachi Coordination Committee and the KESC was held on Sunday at the Chief Minister’s (CM) House with Sindh CM Syed Qaim Ali Shah in chair. Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf also attended the meeting.

Briefing the meeting, KESC CEO Tabish Gauhar said the utility was carrying out load shedding for three hours everyday, adding that there was also no load shedding on holidays as well as in the industrial areas and important healthcare centres.

He told the meeting that from December 1, 2008 to the present, $193 million had been invested to improve power generation and distribution. He said six new grid stations had been constructed and three more were to follow in the next few months, adding that the number of feeders had been increased to 1,106, while the old cables were also being changed.

He also said the KESC presently faced 35 percent line losses and to reduce them, action was being taken against the power thieves, adding that the black sheep in the KESC were also being removed.

He further said meters had already been installed on all grid stations and PMTs, adding that with these steps, they had cut the line losses by seven percent.

Ashraf said the government was trying its best to control power load shedding in the country, adding that to provide Karachi with uninterrupted power supply was a huge challenge and all stakeholders should join hands for it.

He told the meeting that there were eight power supply companies, including the KESC, that were operating in Pakistan, adding that four of them had improved their power supply and billing matters as per the international standard.

He asked the KESC to improve its power supply system to facilitate the citizens of Karachi, urging the utility to expedite its uplift projects. PPP Karachi Coordination Committee Coordinator and PPP Sindh chapter General Secretary Taj Haider said the KESC should fix its load shedding timings, adding that his party would extend complete cooperation to the KESC in this regard.

Addressing the meeting, Shah said Karachi was the industrial and economic hub of Pakistan and serious steps should be taken to provide its citizens with uninterrupted power supply. He asked the KESC to take all possible actions to meet this target. The meeting has decided that that KESC and PPP Karachi Coordination Committee would meet on the first Saturday of every month to review the implementation of the decisions taken for improving power supply and related uplift projects. ppi

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