The Karachi Electric Supply Company has expressed great concern over the continuing attacks on the utility's employees, supply system and assets which blocked normal functioning and delayed the repair of local faults thereby causing issues for the general public for more than two weeks. The maintenance teams, however, persisted to perform their job with enhanced speed and enforcement facing all odds.
The maintenance work was completed in SITE area, SITE Industrial area, Mauripur Area, Orangi Area, Baldia Area, West Wharf, Quaidabad Area, Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Korangi, Landhi, Shah Faisal, Gulistan-e-Johar, Malir, Saudabad, Gadap, Hadiabad, and Nazimabad. One of the most important tasks before the maintenance department of KESC was to reconnect the earth cables which have been removed by miscreants from different points in the City, causing frequent voltage fluctuation resulting in risk of damage to electrical appliances.
In the meanwhile, the official talks between KESC management and the CBA Union entered second round on Tuesday. Being held at KESC offices at State Life Building since Monday, the talks may soon result in the resolution of issues concerning both the management and the employees. The management has made it clear in the talks that the first and foremost priority of everyone concerned should be to ensure that electricity supply to the customers was normalised and all outstanding complaints and faults were attended to in the shortest possible time. It was expected that the power supply situation would become normal shortly, keeping in mind the best interests of KESC and its customers.
At the Fleet Management Workshop in Qayyumabad, the miscreants surrounded the main gates and forcefully stopped employees from entering into office building. At the Transformer Workshop in Haroonabad Grid Station, SITE area, the agitators forcefully vacated all the officers and employees of the KESC while insulting and threatening them of life risk if they returned to work.
Early Tuesday morning, members of the Transmission Maintenance Team were severely beaten up by a group of attackers when they were attending to a fault 220kV Baldia-North Karachi Circuit which had tripped in the late night. About 20 mobsters chased the team led by an engineer from Baldia Grid Station and intercepted them a kilometer away. They insulted and manhandled the team members and damaged the vehicle rendering the fault unattended. KESC security personnel rescued the team from the attackers.-PR
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