Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) has designated two senior officials to redress the grievances of 18 women, who threatened to commit suicide due to problems of incorrect billing and faulty meters.
However, whereabouts of these 18 women are yet to be known as Ansar Burni Trust, which moved the application of these 18 women to Home Department Sindh is also unaware of their location.
According to a press release of KESC on Thursday, a letter was received from Sindh Home Department on Thursday March 25 that 18 women plan to commit suicide in Karachi on March 28.
It says that senior KESC officers in order to redress the complaints of the aggrieved women contacted Ms. Mehnaz Anwar Advocate, who forwarded the applications of 18 women to Sindh Home Department, for the addresses or contact numbers of distressed women but she informed the KESC officials that Ansar Burni Welfare Trust has not knowledge of their whereabouts.
However, it mentions, Managing Director KESC Brigadier Tariq Saddozai taking a comprehensive view of the situation designated two senior officers to redress the grievances of 18 women and directed that complaints relating to incorrect billing, faulty meters and new connections would be solved.
"KESC has asked the aggrieved person to contact KESC head office State Life Building No 11 Abdullah Haroon Road for redressal of their problems and has also sought the help of Home Department Sindh and Ansar Burni Trust in reaching the concerned women, it adds.