Chief Executive of Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) Mujahid Pervaiz Chattah has announced to establish "Lesco Help Desk" at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The announcement was made during a meeting at the Lahore Chamber here on Wednesday. The Lesco chief also agreed with the LCCI President that mindset of Lesco staff should be changed to get resolve various problems automatically. "Lesco really needs change in mindset and I am doing a lot in this regard along with my dedicated team," he added.
To a question, the Lesco chief said that depreciation ratio on transformers is 5 percent annually. He said that system for purchasing of meters has been changed after establishment of NEPRA. He said action has been taken against the supplier of low quality meters and hopefully situation would be better in the days to come.
About load shedding at commercial feeders, Mujahid Pervaiz Chattah said that all industrial feeders are being checked to avoid unscheduled load shedding. He said there are some problems due to load shifting. He said technical and commercial losses are the reasons of minor power cuts.
"We have taken oath to get rid of the overfilling. We are controlling line losses and have also launched an effective campaign against electricity theft. We have uncovered power theft at 15 tube wells at Ferozewala," the Lesco chief told the house and added that that Lesco is working aggressively at technical side to control the flaws. He said that 17 new grid stations have been established and upgraded. Two grid stations have been made double source with the cost of Rs 1 billion.
LCCI President Malik Tahir Javaid said that our members are complaining about low quality of meters being installed by the Lesco. Any malfunctioning in these meters, which has nothing to do with consumers, results in heavy penalties.
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