Caretaker Chief Minister Sindh Justice (Retd) Maqbool Baqar, Federal Minister for Power Muhammad Ali and Secretary Power Division Rashid Mahmood Langrial addressed the ceremony of declaring Mirpurkhas load-shedding free at Mirpurkhas Spreading Engineer HESCO office through a video link here on Monday. Additional Secretary Power Division Hasan Naqvi, Chief Executive Officer Bashir Ahmed Gujjar, Chairman HESCO BOD Jamil Gul Sheikh, Divisional Commissioner Mirpurkhas Faisal Ahmed Uqeli, Deputy Commissioner Dr. Rashid Masood Khan, SSP Adil Memon HESCO officers and local citizens as well as journalists were present at the ceremony.
In his address at the ceremony, the Caretaker Chief Minister of Sindh said that elimination of load-shedding is being done in Sindh and added that the people should pay their bills on time as well as use minimum electricity so that along with saving electricity, the bills will be lower. Caretaker Chief Minister Sindh Justice (R) Maqbool Baqar said: “As you all know that today 25 December is the birthday of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. On this important day, the government is launching the facility of load-shedding free electricity for the people of Mirpurkhas”.
The interim CM further passed his greetings to the management, and their entire team, especially the hardworking workers of HESCO. Conducted combing work on all 16 feeders of Mirpurkhas, including securing of meters, securing of transformers, correcting/straightening of poles and wires, and the development work, where the losses were 30% was reduced by 17 per cent and the recovery has also increased. Caretaker CM stated that the federal government had started a Nationwide campaign against electricity thieves and defaulters on September 7, 2023. Caretaker Chief Minister of Sindh while congratulating the people of Mirpurkhas for being load shedding free, expressed hope that HESCO will provide better electricity service by working in this way in other cities as well.
Through a video link, Federal Minister of Energy Muhammad Ali, and Secretary Energy Rashid Mahmood Langrial said that Mirpurkhas free load shedding is being formally inaugurated on December 25, 2023, and maintained that Mirpurkhas is the first load-shedding-free city in Sindh.
