KARACHI, May 7: The people of Karachi suffered intense load-shedding on Thursday, as the mercury crossed the 39 degrees Celsius

mark. The shortfall in electricity supply has reached 500 megawatts despite the fact that the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) is getting around 600 megawatts from the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) as it has miserably failed to meet the demand of 2,260 megawatts of the city. While the power utility has failed to perform its basic function that is to generate and ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity to consumers the foreign management of the privatised KESC is trying to cover up its failures by announcing the implementation of a so-called code of ethics and business practices in the department for cleaning out corruption from the utility. The measure is supposed to ensure the highest level of ethical standards in the behaviour of 17,000 KESC employees. On one hand the people of Karachi continued to suffer prolonged power outages stretched over several hours a day, on the other hand, the top management of the KESC is seemingly uninterested in electricity generation and transmission improvement efforts. While the Bin Qasim power generation plant is not generating more than 800MW, there are also reports of problems in the four units of 48 megawatts each of the Korangi Thermal Power Station due to some fault in its water intake channel built for ensuring adequate cooling of the system. It seems that due to the location of the channel, sand and garbage has blocked the filter. Despite mounting public complaints against the poor performance of the KESC and a persistent power crisis which is affecting industrial and business activities in the industrial hub of the country, the foreign management of the utility, which allegedly enjoys unconditional support of high-ups, has turned a blind eye to the problems. While an intelligence and surveillance network under a brigadier has been set up to beef up security, there has hardly any effort been made to improve the power generation capacity, it is learnt. When the management of the KESC was reached by Dawn for its comments on the daylight saving initiative, it chose not to respond to the queries about the impact of the initiative. It has also not given any answer regarding the procurement and use of furnace oil, line losses and other important issues despite the fact that due to its policies, some 18 million people in Karachi are facing severe problems. The Abraj-led management has not invested anything into the system from the promised $361-million-dollar to improve the functioning of the utility. As the electricity system is facing a severe crisis due to poor maintenance and lack of expertise on the part of the management, there is also no evidence of any serious effort being made to improve power generation.

To give an impression that the Abaraj-led management is serious about resolving the problems, some projects are being presented. However, these projects were actually promised and initiated by the previous management of the KESC. The rate of tripping in extra high-tension transmission lines and power transformers is also exceptionally high. Most of the trippings are indiscriminate in nature, understandably due to faulty protective gear or improper relay settings. The quantum of unwarranted tripping can be, however, substantially minimised by replacing the outdated and sluggish protective relays with latest versions and by reviewing all existing settings and making necessary required revisions to ensure selective and smooth operation of the power system. Everyday there are reports of outages due to overloading of feeders as most of the protective relays installed for the protection of the extra high-tension transmission lines and power transformers are outdated. At the Bin Qasim power generation plant problems have not been addressed properly as unit control systems of the various units have recently developed leakages. The power generation problems have also been compounded because heat rates and unit-wise capacities of the KESC power generating units have deteriorated considerably. Meanwhile the Karachi chapter president of the All Pakistan Organisation of Small Traders and Cottage Industries, Mahmood Hamid, has complained that he has never experienced such a bad power supply situation which has severely affected business activities in the metropolis.

Deluge, power outage torment Karachi

Dawn Report Monday, 20 Jul, 2009

Motorcyclists and cars drive through a flooded road caused by heavy monsoon rainfall in Karachi Photo from AP.

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KARACHI: A massive power breakdown in the countrys premier commercial and industrial hub, of 12 to 24 hours in some parts of the city, compounded the misery of the people already suffering a near-disaster after Saturdays downpour which flooded residential areas, including the posh localities of Clifton and Defence Society. Protesters took to the streets on Sunday to vent their anger against the Karachi Electric Supply Company, blocking roads, burning tyres and damaging a department store. A child was reportedly killed during a protest outside the KESC complaint centre in North Nazimabads Hayderi locality late in the night, as reports were coming in of the protests spreading to other areas of the city.

This was the second major breakdown of the power generation, transmission and distribution systems of the KESC, which previously took almost one day to restore power supply to a few areas which plunged into darkness on June 17. Drains, made ineffective by a high tide, overflowed and streets turned into veritable rivers. Pumps employed to drain out water did not function because there was no electricity and not enough fuel to run them. Hundreds of vehicles were seen on main roads and streets, abandoned by their owners when they were submerged by rushing water or when their engines stalled. Till late Sunday night, 28 people had died in rain-related incidents. The figure included four members of a family who died when the roof of an adjacent building fell onto their house. Train and airline schedules were badly affected and thousands of passengers were stranded at the airport and the Cantt railway station. Rangers and police fired teargas shells to disperse violent protesters in some parts of the city, including Punjab Colony and Baloch Colony. Enraged residents complained that they were facing a serious water shortage in the absence of electricity for more than 24 hours. The KESC system collapsed when a 500kVA line from Guddu to Dadu and the HubcoJamshoro link were damaged on Saturday evening, leaving the entire city without electricity. Initially, the power utilitys management maintained that it was waiting for the Jamshoro grid station to resume functioning. Then a KESC spokesperson in a statement on Sunday claimed that the utilitys systems did function under heavy rainfall throughout the day despite the drizzle that continued till Saturday evening. However, lightning at both the NTDC/Wapda lines at Jamshoro brought the national grid down at 9.43pm, the spokesperson said.

Deaths The four deaths in a family occurred in the Garden police limits on Sunday when part of the roof of an adjacent multi-storey building collapsed and landed over their small house. Police and Edhi sources said that the incident occurred apparently due to heavy rain. The body of a six-year-old child was fished out from the Lyari River, while in a similar incident, Edhi sources said, the body of an eight-year-old girl was fished out from the same river near Mohammadi Colony, Mauripur. Two young men drowned in a storm-water drain in Qayyumabad. Two brothers died in Moosa Colony when the wall of their house fell on them. The incident occurred in the limits of the Gulberg police station. Police said the wall had been built without proper support and it collapsed in the aftermath of the rain. Three men, including an employee of the KESC, were electrocuted. Edhi sources said that in Shanti Nagar, Baldia Town, a live electric wire snapped and fell on 25-year-old Mustaqeem, who died on the spot. The body was sent to the Civil Hospital for legal formalities. A KESC employee, Qalandar Bux, was electrocuted when he was attending to a complaint in Lyari. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital. In Korangi, 40-year-old Noor Mohammad was killed when a wire fell on him. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Rainfall Over 130 millimetres over five inches of rain was recorded in three hours on Saturday night, between 9pm and midnight, which crippled the fragile drainage infrastructure of the city, leaving thousands of people drenched and literally marooned on the roads.

The total rainfall in 24 hours, between 8am on Saturday and 8am on Sunday, according to the Met office was recorded at 205mm over eight inches almost breaking the 32-year-old record when 207mm of torrential rain lashed the city on July 1, 1977. The fragile drainage network of the city, where many of the natural storm-water drains have been encroached upon, could not cope with the three-hour-long cloudburst. Almost the whole city was submerged in water with low-lying areas giving the look of small lakes and ponds, leaving thousands of people trapped in traffic jams.

Complaints against KESC complaints cell Many of the people manning the complaints cell of the Karachi Electric Supply Company, understandably deluged with calls from irate consumers, proved unequal to the task, and instead of comforting them even with the false promise of an early restoration of supply, were reported to be unusually rude. Some of them came on the line, and without even bothering to listen to what the caller had to say just muttered OK and hung up. According to one caller, the response was the same when he dialed the cell again and complained against the lack of courtesy.

KARACHI: Over 1,200 mosques havent paid power dues for two years
By Shamim-ur-Rahman Thursday, 01 Oct, 2009

KARACHI, Sept 30: More than 1,200 mosques in the city have not cleared their monthly electricity bills for the past two years despite repeated notices issued to their managers by the Karachi Electric Supply Company.

The KESC in an effort to collect over Rs13 billion dues will soon issue final notices to the mosques and religious seminaries along with other public sector organisations with a warning that their electricity connections will be severed if they do not pay up the arrears forthwith. Most of these religious institutions could easily pay their bills on time as shops and small restaurants attached to the main buildings are their sources of revenue. These details were provided by KESC Chief Operating Officer Jan Abbas Zaidi at a news conference on Wednesday. He said that the disconnection of power supply to the religious institutions was a sensitive issue, adding that the KESC wanted the issue to be resolved before resorting to the extreme step. However, he made it clear that if the defaulters again failed to clear the dues, the power utility would be left with no other option. He said that the power utility would issue final notices to all non-paying consumers in the private and public sectors under its recovery drive to collect its Rs36 billion outstanding bills. The KESC official also alerted the public sector institutions, which are defaulting on payment of over Rs13 billion dues, saying that final notices would soon be issued to all the defaulters including 18 towns of the city government that owed Rs222 million. Other defaulters include the Pakistan Rangers, Pakistan Coast Guards, Utility Stores Corporation, National Shipping Corporation, Pakistan Steels, Pakistan Post, AntiCorruption Establishment, University Grants Commission, Lyari Expressway project, the Pakistan Works Department, Sindh Workers Welfare Board, Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, SITE, city courts, labour courts, excise and taxation department, forest department, directorate of agriculture, directorate of colleges, Auqaf department, the central prison, the manpower training, the civil hospital, social welfare department, the city governments executive district officers for health, education, law, revenue, transport and works. Mr Zaidi said that the KESC, which owed billions of rupees to the Pakistan Electric Power Company, independent power producers and other suppliers, speeded up its drive to collect longstanding dues from defaulters.

He said that over Rs124 million dues were outstanding against 1,600 mosques and religious institutions, including the 1,200 religious institutions that had not clear their monthly bills for the last two years. He said that the KESC had repeatedly sent notices to the 1,600 mosques and seminaries, including Masjid Ghani Al Tayab, Hub Chowk, Jamia Masjid, Jacob Lines, Madina Taj Masjid, Ibrahim Hyderi, Hanifa Masjid, Haryana Colony, Masjid Noman, North Nazimabad, Masjid Darsu Salah, Jacob Line, and Jamia Masjid Sulemani, New Karachi. But the power utility never received any response from there, he added. The KESC finally wrote a letter to the federal ministry for religious affairs earlier this month, seeking its help to get the issue resolved. However, the ministry replied that these mosques and seminaries did not function under government control. As a last resort, he said, the KESC was going to send notices to these defaulters, warning their management committees to clear the dues within a week or face disconnection of power supply. Commenting on the Rs8.2 billion power dues outstanding against the KWSB, Mr Zaidi said that the water and sewerage board had promised to pay Rs50 million only. He said the water board must submit a plan of payment and pay its current bill in time every month. He also identified good consumers among the public sector institutions which regularly paid their bills. They were: Pakistan Railways, Board of Revenue, Sindh Assembly, Pakistan Machine Tools Factory, PTCL, Suparco, Port Qasim Authority, PTV, PBC, AGPR, Atomic Energy Commission, Airport Development Authority, Army Welfare Trust, Civil Aviation Authority, Export Processing Zones Authority, Karachi Shipyard, Jinnah hospital, commissioner of income tax, director of works, chief engineer of Pakistan Navy and the executive district officer for elementary education. He said other public sector organisations and private consumers should follow the example of these customers so that tax payers could get rid of frequent electricity outages. It was announced that the KESC faced a shortfall of 250 megawatts on Wednesday afternoon. The overall electricity demand stood at 2,127 megawatts, while the KESC was supplying 1,918 megawatts at 2pm.

Meanwhile, Mr Zaidi thanked the Gulberg and Saddar town nazims for letting the power utility carry out system improvement works in their respective areas.

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..... Click the link for more information. (NEPRA NEPRA National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Pakistan) NEPRA Northeastern Pennsylvania Rocketry Association NEPRA New England Park Ranger Association ) and Water and Power Development AuthorityWater and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) is the main government agency responsible for developing water resources, dams and electrical power in Pakistan. WAPDA was created in 1958 as a semi autonomous body for the purpose of carrying out accelerated and unified ..... Click the link for more information. over a plea against proposed hike in power tariff. The single bench of Justice Mohammad Munir Paracha put off hearing till a date in office after Yasir Mehmood Chaudhry advocate concluded his arguments. Yasir Mehmood contended that the government proposal to raise power tariff by 86 paisas per unit would be additional burden on the masses. He said that instead of introduction of consumer-oriented schemes, the concerned authorities were raising the power tariff. The Ministry of Water and

Power, WAPDAWAPDA Water And Power Development Authority (Pakistan) ..... Click the link for more information. and IESCO have failed to effectively implement power saving measures and control load shedding, he said.

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saving measures and control load shedding, he said. (THROUGH ASIA PULSE)

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