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117 power thieves fined

From Our Correspondent

JHANG: Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) Sultan Bahu division Deputy Manager Operations Faisal Raza Marth has said that special task force personnel caught 117 people for stealing electricity through slow and defective meters and imposed Rs 62.4 million on them.

He was chairing a meeting of the AMOs to review the recovery progress here on Friday. He claimed that 100 per cent recovery target had been achieved, besides decreasing line losses up to 0.30 per cent as compared to the last year. The DMO directed the line and meter reading staffers to gear up the recovery campaign. Later, talking to newsmen, DMO Faisal Raza Marth said that as per the approved load management plan only six hours loadshedding at urban feeders and eight hours at rural and tube-wells feeders was being observed. He further said that routine maintenance work at the main grid station had been postponed due to the month of Ramazan.