FESCO issues bills with 30-50 percent advance reading plus FAC

FESCO has issued provisional bills with the 30 to 50 percent advance reading plus Fuel Adjustment Charges, while Industrial City is subjected to 16 to 18 hours' load shedding of electricity following an increase in the national power short fall, bringing the day-to-day activities of the citizens, industry and trade to halt.
Commenting over the massive unscheduled load shedding, Chaudhry Salamat Ali, Chief Co-ordinator, and ex-Chairman, Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PHMA) North Zone said that government has failed to solve the Energy Crisis during the last four years. Bills are gone high and high, while electricity not available and massive load shedding is generating so many crises for public and industrialists. Government also failed to produce cheap electricity and adding unbearable burden on the industrialists and public.
The costly electricity has also negative repercussions on industrial as well as commercial activities. He said that government totally ignored the advises of Engineers/Experts/Industrialists to produce cheap electricity and as a result the economy has been choked. The industrial sector is also in deep crisis rendering millions of workers jobless, while crime rate is going so high that business community is not saved, he added.
He pointed out that the unscheduled load shedding has also created a water crisis in various densely populated areas of the city where the residents depend on tube wells on canal side and private motors for water, that in turn are dependent on electricity. Hence, citizens and industrial workers in several areas especially Faizabad, Muhammadpura, Gulberg and other areas are facing problems owing to unavailability of water arising due to massive unscheduled load shedding admitted WASA sources.
Industrial workers and people staged various anti-load shedding protests during the last fifteen days, accusing the Federal Government of "discriminatory attitude towards Punjab". Industrialists and Traders also took out rallies and protests at this time so as to exert pressure on the government in the backdrop of the second energy conference held in Lahore, where the decision of equal load shedding across the country is taken.