Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has formed a load management committee, headed by Minister for Water and Power Ahmed Mukhtar, to supervise the distribution of electricity through DESCOs with a view to ensuring equitable load shedding in the country. The prime minister was chairing a meeting of the Energy Committee at the PM’s Secretariat on Wednesday that was attended by Mukhtar, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Adviser to PM on Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain, Minister for Kashmir Affairs Manzoor Wattoo, Minister for Textile Makhdoom Shahubuddin, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, the president of APTMA and CEOs of DESCOs in the country.
He directed the Load Management Committee to ensure distribution of electricity to each DESCOs and its further distribution in the respective regions without deviating from the scheduled load shedding plan. The prime minister also directed all the CEOs of DESCOs to double their efforts without fail in curtailing line losses and also speed up the recovery of the receivables from the public and the private sectors in their respective regions.
