Chief Executive Pesco Tariq Saddozai on Thursday visited the Sheikh Muhammadi Grid Station which damaged due to sabotage activities at 500KV Grid on the other day. Chief Executive Pesco and Chief Engineer NTDC Saeedullah Babar met with the Union leaders and approved some demands immediately. The NTDC announced Rs 100 million will be given to the family of each deceased immediately and these cheques will be handed over to the deceased families today, while employment will be given to the one legal heir of each deceased.
Chief Engineer NTDC also announced that Rs 50 million will be given to deceased policemen, in addition to compensation given to them by the parent department. Prior to that Union Representatives gave an ultimatum of 3-day to the management to recover the abducted employees and security of the grids be given to Army or FC, otherwise the power supply will be switched off to the entire province.
Pesco Chief and NTDC Chief Engineer told the Union that deployment of FC or Army in not in their jurisdiction and it is the central issue and Centre will be contacted for the provision of FC or Army. He said that the safe recovery of abducted employees is our top priority and hectic efforts are being made for this purpose. Meanwhile, restoration and rehabilitation works have been started on the grid and only routine load shedding is being carried out in the province and no area is in the dark.