Will takeover K-Electric if need be: Abid Sher Ali

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali on Monday said the government might takeover K-Electric if the situation did not approve in Karachi.

Speaking to media on Monday, he said 650 megawatt electricity was being supplied to K-Electric despite the expiry of an agreement with the company.

“We may take over K-Electric if need be or situation doesn’t improve,” he said, adding that the agreement with power company was yet to be reviewed.

He said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was getting its quota of power but the federal government was blamed if a transformer developed a fault. The minister was of the view that load management was responsibility of provincial governments.

“We are working with full capacity but people still blame us, 675,000 transformers need to be replaced and each transformer takes 14 hours".