Karachi Power Crisis: Whats Going On?
March 8th, 2008 by
Kashif Aziz
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Karachi went powerless on March 06, 2008 when WAPDA cut the supply on payment dispute with KESC. Both WAPDA and KESC have their opinions on the situation, one blaming the other. However, nobody worries about citizens of Karachi who are badly affected by this tug of war. Here are few observations made while scanning through the news on this issue:
- Opposition in CDGK is more interested in release of their “development” funds than joining treasury benches in protest against power cutoff (here). Maybe they want to buy generators ASAP.
- Industries will doubly suffer from power outages as rising petroleum prices have already affected those who are running their Captive Power Plants (CPP).
- Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) CEO Muhammad Amjad is daydreaming that power crisis will resolve in 2012. He is same guy who, when taking charge of KESC, promised on-record to resign in 30 days if unable to sort out loadshedding issues. Mr. Amjad, are your 30 days not over yet?
On optimistic note, power crisis in Karachi will certainly boost UPS and Generator business. So, anybody planning to launch a venture can go for this.
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March 8th, 2008 11:54 GMT
The people of Karachi are suffering because the KESC owes WAPDA 35 billion rupees. But the government (including the army) is KESC’s biggest defaulter. Until the government clears KESC dues, KESC cannot pay anything to WAPDA and Karachi will be without power during the long summer months ahead. But what about dues of other electricity companies? How much do the electric supply companies in Lahore & Faisalabad owe WAPDA? Has the power supply to Lahore or Faisalabad ever been disconned on this account? It should be interesting to find out.