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Wapda workers vow to stop power theft

By Our Correspondent
February 17, 2018

LAHORE: Hundred of Wapda workers vowed to prevent theft of electricity and recovery electricity arrears which would also help prevent the proposed privatisation of the national electricity public utility.

They expressed the pledge during a conference of Wapda held at Bakhtiar Labour Hall. He event was presided over by veteran trade union leader Khurshid Ahmed. Mujahid Pervaiz Chatha, chief executive officer, Lahore Electric Supply Company, urged the workers to make every effort to provide better services to the electricity consumers.

He assured that those who performed their duty honestly to prevent theft of electricity and recovered the lawful dues from the electricity consumers would be rewarded with incentives. He said that the management was making every effort to prevent accidents of the workers at workplace and ensure them safe working conditions. He asked them to observed safety regulations.

Khurshid Ahmed urged the management to extend all-out support and adequate equipment to the field staff to ensure safe working conditions to them. He also demanded that anomalies of pay scale of the electricity staff be removed and the management ensure provision of free standard education to the children of the employees as well as housing and medical facilities to the workers. The meeting, in a resolution, urged the policy makers to develop new hydel power station for providing cheap electricity to the people of the country.