Severe load shedding in parts of Karachi as shortfall reaches 600 MW
May 24, 2017
KARACHI: It appears that Karachi`s electricity woes are not going to disappear anytime soon as at least 25 percent of the metropolis is going through severe unannounced load-shedding due to a shortfall of 600 megawatts.
Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Malir, Shah Faisal colony, Tariq Bin Ziyad society, Model Colony, Nazimabad, Nagan Chowrangi and Federal B Area are the vicinities worst affected from the unannounced load shedding.
Moreover, the K-Electric authorities have also failed to fix a fault in the National Transmission and Dispatch Company’s 500KVA circuit pool from last three days resulting in curtailment of electricity
Interestingly in the given situation, KE has chosen to stay mum over the prevailing power crisis by refusing to give any official statement.
SHC comes down hard on K-Electric
Is K-Electric waiting for people to die [from load-shedding] before it starts providing electricity to the people?
This was stated on Wednesday by Sindh High Court Justice Irfan Saadat Khan who headed the bench hearing the load-shedding case. The judge also remarked that
Referring to the heat-related fatalities from the heat wave in 2015, when so ‘many so many died from load-shedding’, the judge remarked that they cannot sit idle when there is unannounced load-shedding in the city.
