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With an increase in the power shortfall, the city experienced unscheduled power closures of six to nine hours on Tuesday. In many areas, electricity...

The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) and Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Lahore are at odds on the issue of power supply...

LAHORE - Saturday's rain left a number of areas out of electricity until Sunday morning while the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) took a long time to repair the lines damaged because of the rain.
Electricity in a majority of areas was suspended late at night on Saturday. Power was resumed in some areas immediately after the rain but some localities had to wait for a long time. LESCO sources said that some electricity lines were damaged because of the rain, as trees fell on

LAHORE - The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has decided to add cellular phone numbers of consumers in electricity bills, Pakistan Today has learnt. The move will help the company to compile data of consumers and serve them efficiently. The consumers will be informed about their complaints' status through cellular phone numbers. LESCO meter readers have started collecting mobile numbers of consumers and during meter reading they will ask every consumer about mobile numbers so

LAHORE - The Lahore Electricity Supply Company (LESCO) on Thursday arranged a workshop to promote awareness amongst its employees on environmental and social issues and communicable diseases.
LESCO Board of Directors (BoD) Chairman Rafay Alam chaired the workshop. Dr Khaqan Babar, in his presentation, said that there are scores of infectious and communicable diseases and deaths from infectious diseases number up to 18 million per annum. He said that these diseases have social and

LAHORE - WAPDA Sports Board organised the annual Inter-Unit Athletics Competitions from March 29 to 31 at the Athletics Track of the WAPDA Sports Complex, Lahore. More than 300 male and female athletes from various units of WAPDA and PEPCO competed for the top honors during the three-day extravaganza.
Managing Director PEPCO Rasul Khan Mahsud graced the final day of competitions as chief guest and gave away trophies and prizes to the winners. LESCO won the competitions with 18

LAHORE - LESCO won the WAPDA Inter-Unit Bodybuilding Championship by scoring 59 points here on Sunday. NTDC remained runners-up with 45 points and GEPCO got third position with 39 points. LESCO bodybuilder Ishfaq Butt was declared Mr. WAPDA 2011.
The Championship was held at WAPDA Sports Complex under the aegis of WAPDA Sports Board. As many as 7 Units of WAPDA participated in the competition. GEPCO, FESCO, MEPCO, PESCO and IESCO also participated in the event.
The

LAHORE - The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has adopted another technical way of fleecing customers by sending deflated bills for January, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to sources, LESCO sent inflated bills in December to increase its collections and in January sent bills with fewer readings so that it could charge more units in next month's bills and earn good collections. A large number of customers have received bills amounting less than 50 units or less than Rs 150

LAHORE - Prominent industrialist Gohar Ejaz has been appointed Chairman of Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) on Monday.
Ejaz, who is also central chairman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), pledged he would attempt to fulfill the trust placed in him and will hard towards the improvement of LESCO.
He stressed that he would attempt to reform the organisation and procedures currently in place.

LAHORE: Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) delivered bills in majority of the city areas only two days before the due date, making it difficult for the consumers to pay bills in time, the consumers told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
Consumers criticised the late delivery of utility bills and demanded from the company to extend the due date, as it was not possible for them to pay bills over such a short notice. The resident of different areas; Multan Road, Township, College

LAHORE: Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) linemen still await the promised danger allowance worth Rs 5,000 per month, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Former LESCO chief executive officer (CEO) Azhar Iqbal had promised to pay Rs 5,000 per month as danger allowance to each lineman. The promise was made in April and Iqbal at Bakhtiar Labour Hall announced, "Linemen work under dangerous conditions and it is their right to get danger allowance and it has been approved at Rs 5,000 per

LAHORE: Linemen of the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) lack proper equipment and are medically unfit to perform their duties including working on electricity poles and addressing complaints of citizens, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to consumers, linemen often came to their houses without any gadgets and equipment to repair electricity lines. The technicians often had to work under unsafe conditions exposing them to danger especially electric shocks. According to