ISLAMABAD: With the aim to improve performance of power distribution companies, the Ministry of Water and Power has chosen highly-qualified directors and representatives of the Sindh government for the boards of Sukkur Electric Power Company (Sepco) and Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco).
As per the ministry’s statement, the step was imperative in view of the fact that previous board members had failed to live up to expected performance standards and were unable to achieve the targets agreed in a performance contract signed with the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) in 2014.
Among representatives of the Sindh government, the commissioners of Sukkur and Larkana have assumed charge in the Sepco board and the commissioners of Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas have become part of the Hesco board.
In Sepco, Nisar Ahmed Siddique, an MBA from Boston University who was awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz recently, has been picked by the board as its chairman. In Hesco, Nazar Hussain Mahar has been elected as the board chairman. He has experience of managing public-sector entities and retired from government service in 2010 as a federal secretary.
