6 officials suspended for power outages

LAHORE

The Ministry of Water and Power has suspended six officials of various distribution companies, including Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco), for carrying out longer outages in violation of the load management plan.

According to a spokesman for Ministry of Water and Power, special vigilance teams have been formed at the level of Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) to conduct surprise visit/checking of different areas in all the distribution companies to ensure enforcement of the announced power load management plan.

These teams are conducting in-depth analysis and are having close coordination with the district administration, federal complaint cell and other related agencies besides ground visit to collect information on various 11 kv feeders.

Accordingly the teams conducted analysis of various areas in Lesco, Gepco; Fesco, Iesco and Mepco. The following areas in the related grid stations were found to have higher number of load management duration than the announced schedule.

Lesco, in 132 kv Kanganpur grid station, three 11 KV feeders namely Knaganpur , plu/Kot Siraj and Mandi Heera Singh were found by the Pepco teams to have higher duration of load management than the announced one.

In Gepco, in 132 kv Gujnet grid sation , seven feeders namely Jail Road, Gagian, Jehangir, Court Road, Jinnah Road, Merghazar and State Life were found having additional load shedding than the announced schedule.

In fesco, in 132 kv Minawali grid station, three 11 kv feeders namely Shahbaz Khel, Abba Khel and Musa khel were found having higher duration  of loadshedding than the announced schedule.

In Iesco, in 132 kv Jeglum grid station, seven 11 kv feeders namely F-2(Chip Board), Nathuwala, F-13 Garmala, Jakkar, F-1(FTM) , Safdar Shaheed and CMH Jhelum were found to have higher duration of load shedding than the announced schedule.

In Mepco, in 132 KV Sahiwal new grid, one feeder Kurray Shah and in 132 KV Sahiwal old grid, one feeder Khawaja Arif were found by the teams to have higher duration of load management than the announced schedule.

The water and power secretary while taking strong notice of the reports has directed immediate suspension of the SDOs  concerned in all these areas. Immediate disciplinary proceedings had been also ordered against the officers.