Tag Archives: KESC

Karachi: The Karachi Electric Supply Company has earmarked its important and critical customers as being ‘Strategic’ in nature, of them KWSB being on the top of the list. Such strategic installations are exempted for any and all sort of load shedding, whether planned or otherwise. KWSB is on the top …

Karachi: Karachi Electric Supply Company has resumed operations in Godhra after police arrested both the murderers of late Qamar Alam, Lineman, who was killed in North Karachi on Aug. 14. KESC has announced commitment to fight his case till justice is executed and exemplary punishment is awarded to the murderers. …

Karachi: Karachi Electric Supply Company has launched a strict disconnection drive for recovery of an unprecedentedly huge outstanding amount of over Rs. 37 billion against defaulting residential and commercial customers. Under the drive, electricity supply to all defaulters, irrespective of category or quantum, would be disconnected from Aug. 18 onwards. …

Karachi: The Karachi Electric Supply Company announced on Friday that it would reduce the duration of load shedding in the city after the Pakistan State Oil and the Sui Southern Gas Company assured it of the required fuel supply. The KESC also announced that there would be no load shedding during Iftar and Sehar. It was decided to carry out load shedding for four and a half hours in a day in those areas where power pilferage was on the [...]

Karachi: Karachi Electric Supply Company has demanded immediate supply of the government’s already committed quota of 276 MMCFD of gas that the Economic Coordination Committee of Federal Cabinet has recently re-approved, and said that the government needed to revise its policy of preferring a few industrial units to about twenty million power users of Karachi. KESC had been expecting the ECC decisions to be implemented but, contrary to the expected increase in gas supply, SSGC further dropped gas supply to [...]

Karachi: Karachi Electric Supply Company has rejected as baseless and untrue, the false message circulated by unionists that wrongly claimed grant of a stay order by Supreme Court against the final Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) of KESC. Such a rumour amounted to contempt of the highest forum of judiciary in the country as no case against or about last VSS of KESC had ever been filed before the Supreme Court by any stakeholder or union, therefore, there was no question [...]

Karachi: Karachi Electric Supply Company has submitted before the Sindh High Court that during the upcoming monsoon rains, the union’s illegal actions to block repair of rain related faults are likely to increase problems including threat to human life by electrocution, as the law enforcement agencies are supporting the union miscreants in their illegal actions and have deliberately failed to comply with court orders. KESC has nominated Province of Sindh and others through Mr. Waseem Ahmed, Additional Chief Secretary; Brig. [...]