Asghar A Morawala, Chairman, FPCCI Standing Committee on Public Utilities has welcomed the new management of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) here on Wednesday.
According to a press release, Morawala in a letter to Frank Scherschmidt, the new CEO of KESC, has congratulated the directors and management of Hassan Associates and Consortium Leader Al-Jumaiih for owning 73 percent share of KESC.
He expressed confident on the new management and hoped that the KESC under the professional management would touch new height of standards in terms of improvement in administration and would ensure customer services, un-interrupted supply of electricity to the domestic, commercial and industrial consumers of Karachi at competitive rates.
On behalf of the FPCCI president, vice presidents, members of managing committee, Morawala assured co-operation in resolving problems confronted with KESC at any level in the best interest of all stakeholders and economic development of Karachi in particular and Pakistan in general.
He informed that the trade and industry members of the FPCCI are the biggest consumers of KESC and generate huge revenue for the organisation.
He also informed the KESC CEO about the 'out of court settlement committee', which was formed by the KESC and initiated by the Ministry of Water & Power, with the prime objective to recovering the dues from the consumers for resolving the administrative problems of KESC.
He pointed out that during the last six months there was not a single meeting held, due to privatisation process of KESC.
As the member of the committee, Asghar Morawala, suggested the early convening of meeting on the pending issues.
He invited the CEO in FPCCI on behalf of the FPCCI management to discuss the genuine problems faced by general consumers such as frequent breakdowns, excess billing, fixing of new equipment at consumer premises, problems at customer care centers of KESC and other matters of mutual interest.-PR