The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has suspended its field operations and has announced that all offices will remain closed until the government acts against union protestors in Karachi.
As a result of suspending operations, the KESC said that 90 exempted feeders working on the primary grid were running short of furnace oil. A KESC spokesperson warned that the city could face an electricity shortfall of up to 800 MW with airports, hospitals, and water pumping stations to be affected.
The KESC spokesperson said that furnace oil was arranged on a day-to-day basis and they could only maintain an out put of 1500 MW without furnace oil.
The company’s central offices have been in a virtual siege by its protesting workers who attacked a police vehicle taking food from the police officers stationed in the KESC office.
KESC spokesperson Ghufran Ahmed Khan said the company was demanding a secure working environment and the government should immediately take action against those who had taken the law into their own hands.
He said it was unfair to ask KESC workers to go out into the field if law enforcement agencies were mere spectators and were not protecting the people.
