Unscheduled loadshedding perturbs Pindiites

Rawalpindi
The residents of Adiala Road, Defense Road, Caltex Road, Sher Zaman Colony and several other localities are facing long hours of unscheduled loadshedding particularly at night, which has made the life of people miserable.
The residents are facing sleepless nights for many days as Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) authorities observing unscheduled loadshedding continuously especially at night from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m..
The concerned authorities are teasing public at night through unscheduled loadshedding, fluctuations and low voltage. After every 15 minutes or half an hour, light disappears for one hour or two hours creating difficulties for poor consumers.
In the light of present situation, the angry residents of affected areas including Adiala Road, Defense Road, Caltex Road, Sher Zaman Colony, Dehri, Tahli Morri, Mumtaz Colony, Dhoke Juma, Mubarak Lane, Jarahi, Munawar Colony, Askari 7, Askari 14 and several other localities strongly protested against Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) and blocked main Adiala Road on Saturday. They raised slogans against concerned authority and appealed to prime minister and minister for water and power for taking an immediate action against irresponsible people in this regard.
With rise in humidity level, the duration of loadshedding too has gone up across the twin cities, adding to the public woes.
Most sectors of the federal capital and Rawalpindi suffer from around 8 to 12 hours of loadshedding, while some areas of Rawalpindi ar facing power outages for more than 12 hours for some days.
Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) Manager Operation (Rawalpindi Circle) told ‘The News’ that feeder trip when load increases because of heat and humidity. He said that some days back, around 19 transformers had tripped due to hot and humid weather. “We are trying to provide maximum time electricity to public,” he claimed.
Residents of twin cities complained that unscheduled and prolonged power outages have made hot weather unbearable for them.
The residents of the twin cities said that they are spending sleepless nights due to hours-long power outages in rising temperature.
A number of people told ‘The News’ that long duration and unscheduled loadshedding has disturbed their routine life and it is very difficult for them to work productively in the offices after spending sleepless nights.
After the loadshedding increased, water supply in the city has been suspended as majority of tube wells are running on electricity and diesel.