Team spirit, passion stressed to eradicate polio from region
July 6, 2021
MULTAN: South Punjab Health Secretary Muhammad Ajmal Bhatti Monday stressed team spirit and passion to eradicate polio from the region.
Chairing a meeting, the health secretary asked all officials and field staff concerned to strive for the complete eradication of polio from all districts of south Punjab. He said more training and continuous efforts would meet the challenge of the disease.
Additional Secretary Coordination Primary and Secondary Health Care Department Punjab Sundas Irshad also attended the meeting. The meeting discussed various issues arising in all districts of South Punjab during the recent anti-polio campaign.
Power outages multiply consumers’ miseries across Punjab, stir protests
July 3, 2021
LAHORE: Poor service delivery has multiplied miseries of power consumers, who have been left high and dry as a result of indifferent attitude of Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) during prolonged breakdowns.
Widespread failure of power supply in the provincial metropolis for extended duration of 12 to 18 hours has made the lives of the people a living hell. Similar situation forced people in Kabirwala and Toba Tek Singh to stage a demonstrations against the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) for conducting hours-long power outages.
The problem of overloading and tripping of system have become so frequent, making it a continuous source of stress for the people. People complained that billions of rupees worth Lesco augmentation plan has ignored this area, which is sheer injustice to consumers and demanded an inquiry. When contacted, Lesco management was not available for comment.
Inflated bills
May 2, 2021
The recent electricity bill that I have received from the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) is laced with multiple taxes. the first component of an electricity bill is the amount charged against the number of units consumed, which is fine. Then, there are a number of taxes including fuel price adjustment (FPA) tax, Financing Cost (FC) surcharge, electricity duty, TV fee, 17 percent GST, Neelum-Jhelum surcharge, GST on FPA, electricity duty (ED) on FPA, and the FPA tax on the total bill.
Both poor and rich consumers pay the same amount of taxes. The government should take proper steps to reduce these taxes.
An inquiry team constituted on the direction of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general to probe the death of a line superintendent of the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) in the agency’s custody reached Multan on Saturday. Creative Commons
MULTAN: An inquiry team constituted on the direction of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general to probe the death of a line superintendent of the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) in the agency’s custody reached Multan on Saturday.
The funeral prayers for deceased Ziaul Haq were held at his native town of Vehari.
A test report of the deceased confirmed that he was infected with the coronavirus and the team of health department conducted the Covid-19 tests of the FIA staff and all the accused detained in the lock-up of the FIA office.
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