KARACHI, Oct 23: The Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) has designed “Ramzan Package” to facilitate the citizens, interested in extra lighting for religious congregations, Eid-shopping venues, social occasions and night cricket matches.

The package was aimed at preventing power theft through “Kunda” connections, a KESC spokesman said on Thursday.

He said that special teams constituted by the KESC Managing Director Brig Tariq Saddozai, already checking power theft at commercial centres, had been further strengthened for intensified checking of power pilferage during the holy month.

Charges for special electricity connections during the holy month will be; for religious ceremonies (masjid/traveeh), Rs2,500 for the month, while for commercial places (Markets/Shops), up to 5 KW, Rs5,000, for above up to 10 KW, Rs10,000, above 10 KW and up to 20 KW, Rs15,000, and for night cricket matches the charges will be Rs200 for a single night.

However, the earlier one-day connection policy and charges for marriages and other social and sports functions would remain valid and the Ramzan package would remain effective for functions organized during the holy month, he added.

For availing the package connections, the local maintenance and complaint centres of the area or the KESC executive engineers of the zone concerned or the SDO of the restructured one-window customer centre might be contacted and the connections would be processed within 24 hours, the spokesman said.

He said that illegal hook-connections should not be used, as all the commercial centres and places needing extra lighting would be daily checked by the special KESC teams and unauthorized users would be penalized.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the KESC’s City Coordination Committee was held at the corporation’s head office on Thursday, presided over by in charge, chief engineer, Distribution Department, Jamil Gul Shaikh, in which arrangements to ensure stable power supply during the holy month of Ramazan were finalized.

It was decided that MTL vehicles and special teams would be posted at all important mosques and Imambargahs, especially during the Tarveeh prayers.

Due to extra use of electricity, during the evening hours, the KESC engineers, at the operation centres, had been directed to pay more attention on power supply feeders in the areas with major Taraveeh congregations and shopping centres.—APP