Tag: Kesc

Senators question KESC’s performance

Treasury and opposition senators on Thursday criticised the top management of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) for its failure to improve power supply...

KESC employees’ protest continues, Load shedding intensifies in Karachi

Load shedding here in the city has intensified further as employees of Karachi electric Supply Company (KESC) continued their protest here on Thursday. According to...

Is KESC’s Rs 5.35bn Severance Scheme any good?

Serious questions have been raised over the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC)’s Severance Scheme - formerly known as Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) - after...

Fed up of KESC-workers row, citizens head to streets

The power-deprived citizens of Karachi were forced to take to the streets on Wednesday as the row between the management of Karachi Electric Supply...

Third party likely to mediate between KESC, workers

The protest lodged by employees of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) is likely to end in a couple of days after a third...

Colleagues join rebels’ protest, KESC in denial

Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC)’s employees observing hunger strikes received support from their colleagues on Monday when various KESC offices were closed down, intensifying...

KESC seeks tariff hike by Rs 1.544/kWh

The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has requested the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to allow the company to raise the power tariff...

PSO warns KESC of exceeding supply limit

Pakistan State Oil (PSO) on Saturday has warned Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) of exceeding its agreed limit for the monthly oil supply. According to...

KESC still carping about 230MW short power supply

While the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) continues complaining about short supply of 230MW from two independent power producers (IPPs), Pakistan State Oil (PSO)...

Sweat it out, stingy KESC refuses to purchase oil from refineries

Sorry sir, there is a PMT fault,” parroted representatives of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) customer centre on most calls made from Gulistan-e-Jauhar...

KESC wins OSH&E encouragement award

The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) won the ‘OSH&E Encouragement Award’ from the Employers’ Federation of Pakistan that recognises the utility’s progress in setting...

KESC bills available on its website

The customers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) can now download their electricity bills from the power utility’s website, announced the company’s spokesman...

KESC billing goes online

The customers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) can download their electricity bills from the KSEC’s website. This was announced by the spokesman of the...

Sharmila asks KESC to resolve load shedding issue

Secretary Information Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh Women Wing Ms Sharmila Faruqui has strongly condemned the unscheduled load shedding here in the city and...

It’s all in (excessive) numbers, stupid (customer)!

The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has been presenting pretty statistics of increased recoveries, but residents of Model Colony Street No. 15 will testify...

KESC not to increase load shedding duration

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has assured the government that it would not increase the power load shedding duration. According to an official statement issued on Wednesday, a meeting was convened at the behest of Sindh Electric Power Minister Shazia Marri that was presided over by the provincial Electric Power Secretary Rabia Javari Agha.
It was also attended by the representatives of the KESC, the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and the Pakistan State Oil

KESC teams attacked while removing illegal connections

KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) teams embarked on a campaign on Tuesday to remove illegal electricity connection (kundas) in Abdullah Shah Ghazi Goth near Al-Azhar Garden in KDA Scheme No 33, but were attacked by the violent residents of the unauthorised settlement, the power utility claimed in a press release issued on Wednesday.
The teams also seized one complete span of BC wire and around 800 metres long PVC and telephone wire used for stealing electricity