LAHORE: Individuals in numerous city and semi-urban localities of Lahore and rural areas within the adjoining districts of Kasur, Okara, Sheikhupura and Nankana Sahib have been going through unannounced loadshedding for 4 to eight hours for the reason that heatwave gripped the nation for the final some days.
Nevertheless, the Lahore Electrical Provide Firm (Lesco) claims that the loadshedding is barely being carried out in these areas alone falling inside service jurisdiction of high-loss feeders underneath the federal government coverage.
“We’re paying payments usually. However the cause behind observance of loadshedding in our space on the pretext of high-loss feeders is completely unjustified. I’m questioned why the federal government, as an alternative of chopping connections of electrical energy thieves or defaulters, is penalising these paying payments usually by observing loadshedding for hours,” deplores a shopper of Bedian Highway space.
In keeping with a doc obtainable with Daybreak, the Lesco continues to watch loadshedding in quite a few areas of Lahore and adjoining districts inside service jurisdiction of as many as 225 feeders underneath high-loss category-3 to five.
These areas embrace Kot Abdul Malik, Badami Bagh (Chah Miran and Sultanabad), Ferozewala, Faizpur, Amin Park, Faisal Park, Kala Khatai, Shahdara, GT Highway, Ali Park, Jaranwala Highway, Sharaqpur, Chunhng, Jia Bagga, Manga Mandi, Thokar Niaz Beg, Batapur, Wagha, Bilal Colony, Mehmood Booti, Davies Highway, Shalimar, Kahna, BRB, Bedian Highway, Jinah Park, Attabad, Bhikki, Narang, Muridke, Kharianwala, Sarfraz Nagar, Phool Nagar, Chunian, Elahbad, Kahngan Pur, Kasur (Bahadurpura), Niaz Nagar, Khudian, Usmanwala, Kot Radha Kishan, Lalyani, Pattoki and Raja Jang.
Lesco claims high-loss feeders going through suspension of electrical energy
“It’s horrible to stay in such an immense and insufferable heatwave. The federal government should cease loadshedding for these paying their payments usually as an alternative of penalising them equally with these defaulting on cost or concerned in energy theft,” commented a resident of Thokar Niaz Beg.
He stated the federal government should develop a system that would simply separate the invoice payers and defaulters. “One of the best ways is to introduce sensible metering or the pay as you go electrical energy card system,” he advised.
When contacted, a spokesman for the Lesco stated the corporate, underneath a coverage is barely observing loadshedding on the feeders of three and onward classes. In keeping with him, there isn’t a loadshedding on as much as 20 per cent loss feeders. “However above these, the loadshedding ranges from two to 6 hours or so,” he maintained.
He stated a majority of Lesco service areas are being supplied with electrical energy uninterruptedly.
In the meantime, the Lesco on Tuesday claimed to have detected a complete of 85,576 connections from the place the shoppers have been pilfering electrical energy in all its circles of 5 districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) in 246 days of grand anti-power theft marketing campaign.
The spokesman instructed the media that the corporate has additionally obtained 78,269 FIRs registered in respective police stations, whereas 32,965 accused have been arrested up to now. “The Lesco has up to now charged a complete of 99,371,686 detection items price Rs 3.615 billion to all the ability pilferers. He stated the corporate groups discovered 510 prospects stealing electrical energy by numerous means and 181 circumstances have been registered in opposition to the accused, whereas 39 have been arrested over the past 24 hours.
On the 246th consecutive day of the anti-power theft marketing campaign, he talked about that enormous industrial customers have been discovered concerned in electrical energy theft and all of them have been additionally disconnected and charged with detection items. Among the many seized connections, he defined, 15 have been industrial, 4 agricultural and 490 home, and all these connections have been severed and charged with a complete of 373,636 items as detection invoice amounting to Rs 2.657 million.
Apprising the media about some main energy pilferers, he talked about that Lesco charged Rs503,000 detection invoice to an electrical energy pilferer in Sangla Hill space; Rs225,000 detection invoice to a different thief in Mandi Ahmadabad and Rs200,000 nice within the type of detection invoice to a buyer stealing electrical energy in Samanabad.
Printed in Daybreak, Might twenty ninth, 2024