Additional Chief Peshawar Electric Supply Com-pany(PESCO), Sardar Islam Khan Gandapur has said that effective measures are being made to over-come the issue of power load shedding. In this re-gard, he said all revelant departments had been taken on board to resolve the issue on urgent basis, but non-payment of bills and the theft were among the main reasons that undermined such efforts. He expressed these views while talking to media per-sons at Dera Press Club.
Thus, he urged people to pay monthly bills regularly to get a smooth power supply. He said that a drive had been launched to eliminate power theft and recover outstanding dues and these efforts were yielding concrete results, he added. He mentioned certain feeders where recovery was in progress were being specified in a bid to make them loadshedding free.
He said that company was cognizant of the consum-ers’ difficulties, but currently a forced load shedding was necessary to stabilize the system which needed a renovation as well. Sardar Islam Khan reassured that although load shedding was increasing, good news for the public was imminent, and efforts would be made to reduce the duration of load shed-ding.
