USAID sponsors HESCO officials training

HYDERABAD: The United States Agency for International Development(USAID) is imparting information technology training to 100 officials of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) to enhance their work productivity.

HESCO spokesman Sadiq Kubar saod that the training programme has been launched at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Hyderabad Campus."The training is funded under Power Distribution Improvement Program (PDIP) by the USAID," he told.

A Brookings Institutions scholar Dr Tehseen Chohan and HESCO's Principal of Regional Training Center (RTC) Tufail Ahmed Shaikh are jointly conducting the session, according to Kubar.Similar trainings are also being provided to the officers and staff of lESCO, LESCO and PESCO, and after Ramazan, GEPCO, FESCO, QESCO and MEPCO officers will be trained, he said."As many as 1100 officers of eight distribution companies grouped in 53 batches have been selected for the training," he added.

He further informed that a complete instructional manual was provided to all DISCOs to serve as available training design to conduct same training as in house activity in future.