MULTAN, Pakistan: The State Minister for Water & Power Abid Sher Ali on Tuesday directed Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) officers to disconnect connections of defaulters till the recovery of pending dues.
While addressing a meeting of MEPCO offices in Multan, Abid Sher said that SDOs and XENs were responsible for recovery and strict legal action would be taken against officials involved in facilitating defaulters.
Abid Sher Ali said that the government has given billions of rupees for upgradation of distribution system and there would be no complaint from consumers now. He also directed officers to avoid unscheduled load shedding; otherwise, action would be taken against responsible officer.
The state minister said that technical faults issues had been resolved. He asked officers to facilitate consumers round-the-clock in May, June and July and gold meddle and bonus would be given over good performance and a special prize would also be given to the team leader from Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif after two months, he added.
While giving briefing on the occasion, the Chief Executive Officer MEPCO Engineer Masood Salahuddin assured the state minister that MEPCO would achieve all targets given by the government. He said that only scheduled load shedding was being done in the region including four hours in urban areas, six hours in rural areas, five hours on tube well connections, four hour on mix industries and 10 to 12 hour load shedding was being done at high loss feeders. He said that there was no load shedding on textile industries.
The Chief Executive Officer MEPCO said that MEPCO recovered bills of Rs 100 billion during the nine months of the current year 2016-17 from private and government consumers with a recovery ratio of 100 per cent. He said that MEPCO imposed fine of Rs 1.57 billion on 632,129 consumers over power pilferage.
Masood Salahuddin said that applications had been submitted with various police stations for registration of FIRs against over 4,000 power pilferers.
