Lesco intensifies anti-theft campaign
LAHORE : Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) Chief Executive Officer Engineer Shahid Haider has intensified the ongoing anti-electricity theft campaign by starting a series of night operations across the Lesco region to make the campaign more effective and result-oriented.
The Lesco Chief told the media here Saturday that during the night operations, special teams of Lesco were checking supply lines and power meters.
He mentioned that checking and scanning teams of Okara Circle remained active throughout the last night and conducted operations against electricity thieves and defaulters in urban and rural areas of Okara.
Similarly, special operations were also conducted in Shahpur Sub-Division, Dholanwal Sub-Division and Amin Park areas in Lahore, in which several electricity thieves were caught.
He said, “Special operations have been launched in the entire Lesco region even at night with the aim to make the anti-power theft and recovery campaign more effective”.
407 power pilferers detected
Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 407 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 147th day of grand anti-power theft campaign.
The Lesco spokesman told media here Saturday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 173 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 07 accused have been arrested.
Grand anti-power theft operations against electricity thieves are being conducted on the directives of the Federal Power Division and the Lesco Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider is supervising these operations.
The Lesco chief vowed that the operations would continue without discrimination until the complete end of electricity theft.
The electricity pilferers as well as the Lesco officers and employees who facilitate them are also being brought to justice.
On the 147th consecutive day of the anti-power theft campaign, the spokesman added, large commercial consumers were also found involved in electricity theft and all of them were also disconnected and charged with detection units.
Among the seized connections 12 were commercial, 01 agricultural and 394 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 329,875 units as detection bill amounting to Rs11.346 million.
Apprising the media about some major power pilferers, he explained that Lesco charged Rs1.6 million detection bill to an electricity pilferer in Shahdara area; Rs225,000 and Rs217,000 fine in the form of detection bills respectively to two customers stealing electricity in Baghbanpura area of Lahore; and Rs190,000 detection bill to a power thieve in Qila Gujjar Singh area.
Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider said here on Saturday that modern facilities of training yard and technical laboratory had been provided for best training to the technical staff at company’s regional training centre.
A spokesman for Lesco said excellent training and courses were being organised to provide the best service to the staff, enabling them to ensure uninterrupted electricity to customers. He said the capacity of the training yard for practical exercises for repair and maintenance of transmission systems has also been increased. Lesco field staff is being trained to make the transmission and power system maintenance in the shortest possible time, besides taking immediate practical action on customers’ complaints and restoring power supply in emergency situations, he asserted.
