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Exercise of power: 3 MEPCO officials dangling on minister’s visit
- Updated: August 29, 2016
‘Qadirabad Coal Plant to assistance relieve load-shedding’
PHOTO: REUTERS
SAHIWAL: Federal Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali dangling an SDO, a scale reader and a scale examiner during a warn revisit to a Multan Electric Power Company’s bureau in Sahiwal on Monday. He also spoke to people who had visited a bureau to protest about being overbilled.
Speaking to reporters during a MEPCO office, Ali pronounced he had visited a bureau to hear citizens’ complaints and to solve their problems on priority. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz led supervision placed good store in portion a masses, he said. “There is no room for idle and amateurish people.”
He dangling SDO Khalid Kamboh, Muhammad Asif Khan, a scale reader, and Ghulam Mustafa, a scale inspector, for loosening in billing. Superintendent Engineer (SE) Muhammad Siddique found out about a minister’s attainment half an hour after he had arrived during a office. Ali took notice of that. Imtiaz Ahmad Butt, a PML-N leader, had accompanied him on a visit.
“We will weed out officers who usually supplement to a miseries of people instead of assisting them,” Ali said. “Negligent officers would be penalised.”
The apportion indicted prior governments of “wreaking havoc” on a appetite sector. He pronounced a PML-N had a plain plan to overcome problems of overbilling and unscheduled load-shedding. The plan would be denounced in a entrance months. “We are not here to duke over adults like monarchs, though to offer a people.” He pronounced a benefaction supervision had taken despotic transformation opposite several hurtful officers and purebred opposite them. “This is unprecedented…we will finish crime come what may.”
He urged adults to be studious with courtesy to unscheduled load-shedding. “The conditions will urge when electricity from a Qadirabad Coal Power Plant is combined to a categorical grid.”
The apportion destined officers to hang to a report of load-shedding for 6 hours in civic areas and 8 hours in farming areas. He betrothed adults that he would reason an open justice to hear their problems after Eidul Azha. “The superintending operative will be hold obliged for any problems in a future,” Ali said. He went over a list of electricity check defaulters and destined officials to cancel their appetite connectors but delay.
To a doubt per a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s persisting burden movement, Ali pronounced that PTI arch Imran Khan was perplexing to stir adult difficulty needlessly. “The people have deserted his movement.” The apportion discussed several appetite projects in a tube and pronounced those projects would hopefully be finished by 2018 – a year of a subsequent ubiquitous elections. “Our rivals’ hopes of entrance into appetite will be dashed.”
Adviser to ombudsman hears complaints
Adviser to Federal Ombudsman Colonel (r) Baqir listened several complaints of overbilling by a MEPCO and a Sui Northern Gas on Monday. He asked a complainants to move along impressive justification of overbilling.
He was conference a complaints during a provincial ombudsman’s informal office. As many as 25 adults had filed complaints opposite a dual departments.
The confidant destined a MEPCO to extend mercantile service of Rs55,000 and crossed off 3,847 additional units to yield service to dual complainants. He also told a MEPCO to extend service to a complainant from Liaqatpur who had unnecessarily paid TV fees for dual years.
On another censure per electricity supply, a MEPCO positive Baqir they would implement dual electricity poles in an area of Lodhran mentioned in a complaint.
The subsequent conference regarding to complaints would be hold on Sep 8.
Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 30th, 2016.