KARACHI: Residential/commercial areas of Pakistan’s business hub are
still putting up with 3-4 hourload-shedding, whereas industrial sites
have been exempted.
According to the media reports, owing to various technical faults some areas are out of power for quite a while now.
According
to KESC spokesperson overloaded PMTs that tripped after overheating
have been the major cause of these outages; furthermore the consumers
over there are also defaulters in the books of power utility.
He said we have told the said consumers that unless KESC’s dues are cleared the PMTs would not be repaired/ replaced.
When
asked about the reports of voltage fluctuations pouring in from all
over the city, the KESC spokesman said this is a manifestation of
illegal hookups (kundas), due to which wires get crossed disrupting the
transmission/distribution network. Online
