Lahore Electric Supply Company’s Board of Directors (LESCO-BoD) Chairman Hafiz Mian Muhammad Nauman chaired a meeting to evaluate the performance of Northern and Central circles of the company here at the LESCO Head Office on Wednesday. LESCO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider, Director (Customer Services) Rai Muhammad Asghar and Chief Engineer (Material Management) Ramzan Butt also attended the meeting. LESCO BoD Chairman instructed the relevant officers to resolve the problems of the customers and attend their phone calls, adding that defected/damaged power meters of the customers must be replaced at the earliest.
Hafiz Nauman appreciated the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system implemented in the Central Circle and said that paperless working would avoid wastage of time of the LESCO as well as its customers. He stressed the need for expanding and improving the scope of the ERP system to ensure instant facilitation of the electricity consumers.
Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) detected a total of 442 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 21st day of the grand anti-power theft campaign.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Wednesday that the company has also so far submitted FIR applications against 439 electricity thieves, out of which 269 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 57 accused have been arrested. Grand anti-power theft operations against electricity thieves are being conducted on the directives of the Federal Power Division and the LESCO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider is supervising these operations.
The LESCO chief vowed that the operations would continue without discrimination until the complete end of electricity theft. The electricity pilferers as well as the LESCO officers and employees who facilitate them are also being brought to justice.
On the 21st consecutive day (Sept. 27) of anti-power theft campaign, the spokesman added, large agricultural and commercial consumers were also found involved in electricity theft and all of them were also disconnected and charged with detection units.
Among the seized connections were 01 industrial, 12 commercial, and 429 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 727,091 units as detection bill amounting to Rs Rs 37.283 million. He explained that LESCO charged Rs 1.2 million as detection bill to an electricity pilferer in Ferozwala area; Rs 500,000 fine in the form of detection bill to another customer stealing electricity in Aziz Colony on Wandala Road; Rs 500,000 fine to Baba Bakery on Wandala Road; and Rs 480,298 as detection bill to an electricity thief at Jambar Mor Multan Road. During the 21 days of grand anti-theft campaign, the spokesman mentioned, the LESCO detected pilferage on 8,832 power connections and submitted 8,727 FIR applications against electricity thieves in the relevant police stations out of which 7,417 FIRs have been registered, while 1,240 accused have so far been arrested by the police.
