Alliance of Market Association (AMA) Karachi has given a protest demonstration call on Friday, April 27 against the continued loadshedding. The protest demonstration will be staged in front of the KESC head office.
Traders have expressed resentment over the unannounced loadshedding by the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation (KESC), and warned that if power supply was not normalised forthwith, they would observe a shutter-down strike in protest.
Atiq Mir, Chairman AMA on Friday criticised the KESC for its past mal-administration, which has resulted in continued power crisis in the city leaving the trade and the industrial business almost paralysed. He also criticised the government for its complete failure to ensure uninterrupted power supply.
He estimated that traders and industrialists due to power outage are losing Rs 1.5 billion a day as business has shrunk to only 40 percent. Expressing concerns over the deteriorating situation in the city he said that without provision of electricity, the government could not turn the metropolis into an investment-friendly city only with lip service.
Instead of illumining the city, the government has plunged it into complete darkness Atiq said and demanded of the authorities to provide required electricity to the industries and business centres to continue their business.