Mardan the model city, free of load-shedding

The crackdown on electricity theft that started more than a month ago has yielded great results. Almost Rs26 billion have been recovered and in the next 12 months, this amount is expected to reach a total of Rs300 billion, officials have stated. 

In an attempt to incentivise the public for their cooperation, Mardan has been declared a model city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Talking at a ceremony, Secretary Power Sector, Rashid Langrial, categorically stated that the ones who will pay the bill will get electricity. He further announced that 17 feeders of the city have become free of load shedding because it has managed to evade all kinds of electricity theft in a matter of time.  

Today we will declare town of Mardan a load-shedding free city. This has been possible because of massive success in curtailing power theft (from 43 % to 13 %) and by improving recovery rate ( from 85 % to 101 %).

Aggregate transmission and commercial losses have come down… pic.twitter.com/CADEaB0fHQ

— Rashid Langrial (@Rashidlangrial) October 18, 2023

He goes on to elaborate that the thievery cannot be carried out without the involvement of the employees of power-sector, therefore, many of them have been arrested. He encouraged people to lodge a complaint about any such incident. 

He warned other Government departments about clearing their remaining electricity dues which will otherwise be deducted  from their budget in the coming year.