Electricity breakdown is not a new issue in Pakistan, but these days power outages in Pakistan have increased manifold. Former Minister of Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf assured that power outages would be done according to time schedule.
He assured that the outages would finish by the end of the year 2009 but instead they have doubled since 2009. It is a big failure of the government of Pakistan. No country can make progress without electricity. Recent government measures of a holiday on Saturday and other saving methods have reduced power outages but not significantly.
Here I want to reveal one big waste of electricity by WAPDA, LESCO and electricity board employees in other cities.
One low grade LESCO employee told me that he gets 2,100 units of free electricity per month. He said that senior officers get more than 7,000 units of free electricity per month. These employees get free electricity equal to their salaries.
All this free electricity is being wasted on numerous air conditioners. Holiday on Saturday is a loss for the backward Pakistani nation as our work speed is dead slow.
Protests have been taking place around the country. People of advanced countries cannot imagine living in such circumstances even for a single day. The government has failed to fulfil its promises. It should take drastic measures to end this issue.
The Pakistani nation is unhappy that the government and opposition are busy in other legislative issues instead of resolving these primary issues. I, therefore, request the government to pay serious attention to this issue.
SUNDAS NAZIR QURESHI
Karachi
