HYDERABAD: Hesco urged to reschedule loadshedding timings
HYDERABAD, Oct 8: DCO Ali Ahmed Lund urged the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company on Wednesday to reschedule timings of loadshedding in such a way that it did not affect commercial activities nor essential public services.
He said at a meeting on load-shedding at his office that the Hesco management should consult the management of HCCI, TMAs, HDA and organisations of essential services and reschedule timings of loadshedding keeping in view their requirements.
He asked them to consider a proposal for carrying out two-hour loadshedding from 3 pm to 5 pm, from 10 pm to 12 pm (midnight) and again from 4 am to 6 am so as not to affect water and drainage supply and also be able to meet six hours shortfall of power supply.
He stressed that power supply to water supply and drainage pumping stations must be provided simultaneously and asked the managing director of Water and Sanitation Agency to prepare schedule of loadshedding in a way that water supply to people and process of drainage did not suffer.
The DCO asked the officers of health, education, TMAs and police to prepare proposals in light of the meeting’s recommendations and requirements of people, maintenance of law and order and submit them within two days so that six-hour loadshedding as required by Hesco could be managed.
The Hesco representatives informed the meeting that the company was forced to impose six-hour loadshedding to meet the power shortfall. They said efforts would be made to manage loadshedding according to people’s desires.
PUNISHMENT: The director of Hesco Shaikh Nazeer Ahmed has awarded punishment to four SDOs on charges of inefficiency after completion of departmental inquiries.
A spokesman for the company said in a statement that former SDO operation sub-division Shahdadpur-I, Nazeer Hussain Solangi, who was presently working as SDO, construction, Thatta, had been demoted to the post of line superintendent-I.
The scales of SDO, operation, Moro-II sub-division, Ghulam Akbar Malhan, Maqsood Ahmed Korejo, SDO, operation, Padidan sub-division, and Abdus Sattar Channa, SDO, operation, Kandiaro sub-division, has been reduced, he said.
Mr Ahmed said that good officers would continue to receive awards and the bad ones would continue to be punished.
Basic criteria for good performance was 100 per cent recovery, reduction in line losses, power theft and issuance of correct bills to consumers according to meter reading, he said.