HYDERABAD:
Because the launch of their marketing campaign towards energy theft and unlawful connections within the area, on Saturday, the Hyderabad Electrical Provide firm (Hesco) has claimed to have collected Rs3.59 billion of which Rs3.55 billion had been recovered from defaulters, whereas Rs41.Eight million had been collected as penalties.
In keeping with Saadik Kubar, spokesperson for Hesco, Rs1.88 million have been collected from main cities throughout this marketing campaign with Rs58.5 million collected from Hyderabad, Rs12.Eight million from Nawabshah and Rs9.7 million from Mirpur Khas, amounting to Rs81 million in whole. He additional disclosed that Rs150.9 million was recovered from the entire area together with the elimination of Eight transformers and disconnection of 38 transformers for the dues of Rs76.013 million. Kubar additional knowledgeable {that a} whole of 251 transformers have been eliminated and electrical energy has been disconnected from 1,110 transformers for the reason that starting of the marketing campaign. Hesco authorities submitted 1219 letters towards energy thieves to the police stations for submitting of FIRs and 413 circumstances had been registered which led to the arrest of 45 energy thieves.
In Peshawar, underneath the supervision of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Ok-P) Job Power for Power, efforts to get better electrical energy payments from customers of defaulter feeders in varied districts of the province continued. Over 20,645 connections had been disconnected, resulting in a restoration of Rs1.43 billion, with an extra Rs110 million collected from shoppers concerned in energy theft. The third assembly was held underneath the chairmanship of the top of Provincial Job Power for Power, Mohammad Abid Majeed, Further Chief Secretary Residence and Tribal Affairs Division. Senior officers together with Divisional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, District Police Officers and representatives of Power & Energy and Industries and the CEO of PESCO attended the assembly.
The assembly was knowledgeable that over 10,406 raids had been performed by PESCO, district administration and the police, the place massive business hubs and factories had been concerned in unlawful use of electrical energy. Greater than 20645 connections of Kunda mafia together with shoppers had been disconnected whereas circumstances had been registered towards greater than 7080 accused by native police, amongst them 479 had been arrested.
Moreover, the Lahore Electrical energy Provide Firm (LESCO) launched a 30-day anti-theft safety safety marketing campaign in 5 districts, together with Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur, and Okara. Lesco detected 14,259 connections concerned in electrical energy theft, leading to FIRs towards 14,127 people, with 13,314 circumstances registered and 4,653 arrests. These electrical energy thieves had been required to pay Rs1.33 billion for 29,424,716 items of stolen electrical energy.
Printed in The Categorical Tribune, October 8th, 2023.
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