Load shedding continued to persist in the country as the urban areas are facing power cut of seven hours while the rural areas have been hit by 10 hours electricity outages.
The National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) has reported that the power demand has escalated to 13,800 megawatts and the production has restricted to only 9700 megawatts.
The new schedule of power outage, six hours load shedding for urban areas and eight hours load shedding to rural areas, was made by keeping in view the ongoing crisis of electricity however due to electricity shortfall the decided duration has been increased.