The government has exempted the industrial sector from power load shedding besides 6-8 hour power outage for urban and rural areas of the country respectively.
Spokesman of Ministry of Water and Power Zafaryab Khan said that currently uninterrupted power was being supplied to the industry in order to meet the export orders. “Zero power outage was being observed to the industrial sector of the country for the last month,” he said.
He said the power shortfall had also reduced and stood at around 2,300 MW against the total demand of 15,600 MW. Regarding power load shedding to the domestic consumers, he said that 6-8 hours load shedding was being observed across the country. However, he said more load management was being carried out in areas of high losses and less recovery.
The spokesman said the government had already expedited work on various power projects having accumulative capacity of 10,500 MW with the assistance of China. He said the provinces were also empowered to set up power plants and generate electricity at their own after the 18th constitutional amendment.
It is pertinent to mention here that 10-12 hours power load shedding was observed in the past. While some areas also faced even 18-20 hours load shedding. Since, its inception, the incumbent government paid full attention not only to set up new power projects but also made the distribution system efficient. The government also added over 2000 MW in the national grid system by clearing the circular debt of around Rs 480 billion.
