LAHORE: Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) administration has taken actions against officials after internal audits reports, conducted in different years, are pointing to material theft by the field supervisory staff.
According to a report by a private media outlet, the situation has driven LESCO to make teams to monitor the supervisory staff during office hours besides imparting training to line superintendents, supervisors and assistant managers in order to end such practices.
Since the company covers a vast area, the frequent use of material such as cables, wires, poles, insulators, circuit breakers, transformers, meters and other electric devices to accomplish jobs is a routine matter and in the absence of proper monitoring, material theft by the field supervisory staff has become a norm.
In order to curb this menace, monitoring teams will conduct surprise visits to stores and warehouses and check inventory by tallying with the material issued and installed on sites.