Keeping in view the huge outstanding dues amounting to Rs. 15.323 billion [Rs. 15,323,307,899] of the government departments, Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider has widened the scope of recovery from the government departments.
A LESCO spokesman told the media here on Monday that the company had started recovery from private sector’s chronic defaulters of various categories in all its circles over the last six days. And now the company has also issued a list of defaulting government institutions, he added. The CEO tasked the LESCO’s relevant officers to ensure recovery from public sector departments in accordance with the given list and also take all necessary steps in this regard, he added. According to the list, issued by LESCO, he mentioned, the WASA Lahore (Water and Sanitation Authority) is the defaulter of Rs. 7,679,880,169; Town Municipal Authority Rs. 3,639,877,581; Punjab Irrigation and Power Department Rs. 596,053,127; Pakistan Railways Rs. 532,982,792; Lahore Ring Road Authority Rs. 500,229,120; City District Government of Lahore Rs. 495,962,968; Punjab Health Department Rs. 424,446,903, Punjab Police Department Rs. 439,487,631; District Government of Kasur Rs 349,929,974; LDA (Lahore Development Authority Rs. 324,243,293; Services Hospital Lahore Rs. 168,739,636; and University of the Punjab Rs. 167,474,005.
A dairy safety team of Punjab Food Authority (PFA) raided Ghulam Abbas Haveli in Chunian, seized thousands of litres of chemically contaminated milk, and later on discarded it. PFA Director General Raja Jahangir Anwar said in a statement that the team discarded 3,500 litres of fabricated milk, 48-kg substandard ghee and 37-kg powdered milk, and impounded two vehicles, two mixing machines and drums during the raid. He said that acting on a tip-off, the dairy safety team conducted a raid and caught milk adulterators red-handed producing fabricated milk. He said that hazardous milk was being prepared with vegetable ghee, harmful chemicals, powder and polluted water, while it was being filled into milk tankers for supply to local milk shops and homes. Police have registered a case against the unit owner on account of adulteration on the complaint of the PFA, he said.
