PESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan comes intoaction over the unannounced loadshedding in the province and summonedPeshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) chief.
Taking the notice of unannounced load shedding, the chief minister directedthe PESCO chief to improve the electricity delivery and distribution systemand to take steps to overcome power load management and load shedding.However, Electricity delivery and distribution should be with accordance tothe right of province and declared formula.
On the other hand, the chief minister assured the PESCO chief that theprovincial government will help in upgrading system including electricitydistribution and delivery.
Nonetheless, PESCO official told the CM that province is facing energycrises because of over loading and fault in system.
Contrarily, as the province has been facing load shedding for three days,so The protesters dropped eleven thousand transmission lines of electricityon the Varsk Road in Peshawar which caused the damage of millions toelectric company.
Besides all these, according to the PESCO officials, demand for electricityin Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has raised to 2,038 megawatts while the supply is1600 megawatt due to load loading.