No loadshedding during Sehr, Iftar: Abid Sher

FAISALABAD: There will be no loadshedding at the time of Sehr and Iftar during the month of Ramazan, said State Minister for Water and Power Ch Abid Sher Ali.

Presiding over a review meeting at the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) Headquarters here on Monday, he said that the government was determined and striving hard to eliminate the loadshedding till March 2018.

He said that power generation would be brought up to 21,000 megawatts by August. The minister said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his team were taking every possible measure to end the loadshedding.

In this connection, work was in full swing on short term, mid-term and long term projects, he added. He issued orders to convert the all 66kv grid station of the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company region into 132kv.

He said that a joint task force of his ministry and  Pepco would visit all distribution companies to monitor electricity projects. He said that when the government came into power, the country was facing 18-hour loadshedding, which had been decreased to a considerable level due to its positive steps.

Speaking on the occasion, Faisalabad Electric Supply Company CEO Mujahid Islam said that the company had constructed six new grid stations during the last four years while two 66kv grid stations were converted into 132kv.

He said that 8,000 distribution transformers were added to the Fesco distribution system and 181 trolley transformers had been provided to cope with any emergency situation. The meeting was also attended by Fesco GM Operations Nizamuddin Marwat, GM Technical Sardar Masood Iqbal, CE Operations Amil Siddique, CCO Mujahid Pervez Chattha, SE First Circle M Bashir, SE Second Circle M Yaqoob, SE Jhang Circle Khawaja M Yaseen, SE Sargodha Circle M Saleem and others.