HYDERABAD: The Senior Vice President Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry Turab Ali Khoja has rejected the load shedding policy of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company adding that such plan is adversely affecting the trade and business activities in Hyderabad.
In a statement issued here on Monday, he said that HESCO’s four to twelve hours load shedding policy on the basis of line losses had deprived those customers of their rights who were regularly paying their electricity bills.
The policy is badly affecting the home based industries as well as trade and business activities, he said and added that the industrial areas as well as Zam Zam Industrial Zone have also been brought into the net of load shedding by HESCO management.
He said that business community of Hyderabad is playing vital role in economic development and provision of job opportunities to jobless people and the current load shedding policy of HESCO could cause economic instability in the Hyderabad.
He claimed that current load shedding policy would also badly affect the recovery of outstanding dues of HESCO therefore it is the need that the management concerned should overcome the issues of excessive billing and detection, activate its employees to unearth illegal action rather than testing the temperament of genuine customers.
He said that wrong policy of HESCO management is causing damages to industrial development therefore HCCI has no other way except to reject this policy. He appealed to Federal Energy Minister and concerned Federal Secretary to take serious notice over anti-customer load shedding policy of HESCO management and provide relief to energy users.
