Hazara highways blocked to protest power loadshedding
August 3, 2021
MANSEHRA: People from various areas on Monday blocked the Karakoram Highway and Hazara Expressway for traffic to demand an end to the prolonged and unscheduled load shedding at the Battal feeder.
The angry protesters burnt tyres and blocked both arteries to traffic at the Ichrian Interchange. It caused inconvenience to passengers travelling within the Hazara division and between KP and Gilgit-Baltistan.
They remained stuck up in the long queues of vehicles on both sides of the highways in the scorching heat. The protesters raised slogans against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government and Peshawar Electricity Supply Company (Pesco). They refused to clear the strategic arteries when the Assistant Commissioner of Baffa-Pakhal Arshad Mehmood rushed to the spot and held talks with them.
MANSEHRA: Traders have demanded the government to stop prolonged and unscheduled load-shedding, otherwise they would observe a complete shutter-down strike and stage demonstrations.“The.
Power Division says it lacks capacity to prepare roadmap for privatisation of DISCOs
Privatisation Commission has geared up for the sale of power distribution companies and will do its best to complete the task while remaining within its legal mandate, said privatisation ministry spokesperson. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The Privatisation Commission (PC) board on Thursday could not take decision on privatisation of power distribution companies due to Ministry of Energy’s failure to improve the poor condition of these companies over the past two and a half years.
The Power Division has shown its inability to even prepare a roadmap for the privatisation of power distribution companies, saying it lacked the “capacity”, showed official documents.
Peshawar
January 11, 2021
By PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faced hours-long loadshedding on Sunday due to apparent fault at the national transmission lines.
A spokesman for the Peshawar Electricity Supply Company (Pesco) said electricity to most parts of the provincial capital and 41 areas of KP, besides 23 major hospitals, was restored following the other night’s electricity breakdown in the country.
He said that following the country’s wide electricity breakdown, work on restoration of electricity in all affected areas had been expedited in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where 40 to 41 percent electricity from feeders restored till 3pm on Sunday.
Out of 27 major hospitals, he said, electricity to 23 hospitals was restored in KP. Electricity of one 500 KV grid station, two 220 KV grid stations, 57 grid stations of 132 KV and four grid stations of 66KV had been restored.
National
January 11, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faced hours-long loadshedding on Sunday due to apparent fault at the national transmission lines.
A spokesman for the Peshawar Electricity Supply Company (Pesco) said electricity to most parts of the provincial capital and 41 areas of KP, besides 23 major hospitals, was restored following the other night’s electricity breakdown in the country.
He said that following the country’s wide electricity breakdown, work on restoration of electricity in all affected areas had been expedited in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where 40 to 41 percent electricity from feeders restored till 3pm on Sunday.
Out of 27 major hospitals, he said, electricity to 23 hospitals was restored in KP. Electricity of one 500 KV grid station, two 220 KV grid stations, 57 grid stations of 132 KV and four grid stations of 66KV had been restored.