Local printers and publishers have strongly protested against unnecessary suspension of power supply to units and issuance of inflated bills, warned that they would compel to launch protest drive, if the practice was not stopped.
Addressing at a press conference here at press club on Saturday, the president Frontier Printing and Publishers Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Zafar Rehman Khattak said that the Peshawar Electricity Supply Company (PESC) had discontinued power supply from Sub-division Qissa Khawani on pretext on maintenance and repairing of power transmission lines.
He informed that printing industry has generated huge employment, adding that more than 0.1 million workers were engaged in local printing market Mohallah Jangi in Peshawar. He said that the business was only boom in the elections season, but they are facing enormous difficulties to finish printing orders of clients at proper time. The association president that despite charging Rs 18-20 per units to printers, the company has failed to supply interrupted power supply to local units.
More than 300 small and big printing machines were installed at local market in Mohallah Jangi, he informed. We will not tolerate more manipulation tactics of the power supply company on pretext of maintain and repairing supply lines, he warned.
He said they would protest peacefully against the unjustified step of Pesco, to give legitimate rights to thousands of workers engaged with printing industry. He demanded of the KP caretaker government, and Chief PESC, to take notice of unnecessary suspension of power supply to printing units in Mohallah Jangi, Peshawar, otherwise they would compel to carry out an agitation drive against it.