Due to rain in different areas of PESCO region, power transmission is affected in provincial capital Peshawar and in other districts across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to a PESCO spokesman, the rains continue in Mardan, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Swat and Swabi and due to rain, some feeders of PESCO have been tripped. On the instructions of PESCO Chief Executive Officer Akhtar Hameed Khan, the field staff has been put on high alert.
As soon as the intensity of rain decreases, the process of restoring electricity will be started and consumers are requested to stay away from electrical installations during rains, spokesperson PESCO said. In case of any emergency, call PESCO helpline 118 free of charge. In view of the bad weather, the public is requested to cooperate, the spokesman added.
On the other hand the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 447 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara, on the 159th day of grand anti-power theft campaign. A LESCO spokesman told the media here on Sunday that the company had also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 165 FIRs had been registered in respective police stations.
Grand anti-power theft operations against electricity thieves are being conducted on the directives of the Federal Power Division and the LESCO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider is supervising these operations. The LESCO chief vowed that the operations would continue without discrimination until the complete end of electricity theft. The electricity pilferers as well as the LESCO officers and employees who facilitate them are also being brought to justice.
