PESHAWAR: The financial constraints have forced Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) to serve electricity supply disconnection notices to provincial departments.
According to a Pesco statement, the defaulting department will have to pay their arrears up to Nov 20, otherwise their power supply will be disconnected on Nov 21 as the provincial government had not paid even a single rupee during the last four months.
A Pesco spokesman said that Rs100 million were outstanding against the secretary Safron and Rs292 million against the Fata Development Corporation. Similarly, TMA Town-I, Peshawar, was to pay power arrears of Rs90 million and Rs110 million, and TMA Town-III, Peshawar, Rs110 million and Rs75 million, respectively, consumed on running tube-wells and streetlights.
He further said that Pesco defaulters also included TMAs Nowshera, Peshawar, Karak, Takht-i- Nusrati, Samar Bagh, Abbotabad, Havilain, Nawansher, Mansehra, DI Khan, Batkhela, Shabqadar, Tangi, Mardan, Tank, Mardan and Swabi.
