HYDERABAD: Hesco urged to stop issuing inflated bills
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, May 9: The Moro Action Committee, Naushahro Feroze, has urged Hesco to stop issuing detection and inflated bills and resorting to load-shedding in the area. Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Monday, action committee leaders Subhan Zardari, Mohammad Yunus Solangi, Ghulam Farid Kalhoro, Mohammad Ishaq Korai and Anwar Qaimkhani warned that area people would not pay their power bills and launch a protest against Hesco if it did not meet their demands.
They alleged that company officials had made lives of people miserable by issuing them inflated and detection bills and resorting to frequent power load-shedding.
They accused Hesco staff of Moro of corruption. They alleged that the Hesco officials were taking bribes from owners of petrol pumps, hotels, litho machines, flour mills, ice factories and tub-wells and recovering the losses from domestic consumers. They further alleged that many consumers had obtained illegal connections in connivance with the officials.
They said the company officials claimed 80 per cent line losses for which they themselves were responsible.
They demanded that detection bills and inflated bills should be withdrawn, load-shedding should be discontinued, consumers be issued meter reading cards with previous 12 months readings and honest officers be posted in Moro.
They regretted that the action committee had been holding protest demonstrations for 11 days but the officials had taken no notice of the matter.
They also deplored the indifferent attitude of elected representatives of people and provincial and federal governments on the issue.
They said they had sent telegrams to the Wapda chairman, Hesco chief executive and other officials in this regard but to no avail.
ANTI-SMOKING DRIVE: Heart specialists have advised people to avoid smoking, reduce weight and give up lethargy to escape heart diseases.
They were speaking at a public awareness programme organized in Phulelli on Sunday in cooperation with the Pakistan Cardiac Society, Hyderabad chapter.
The doctors also informed the participants about precautionary measures to avoid heart diseases.
Prof Noor Mohammad Memon, Dr Javed Iqbal, Dr Rafia Ghori, Dr Bheka Ram, Dr Fakharddin Shaikh, Dr Zaman Baloch and other doctors delivered lectures on various aspects of heart diseases.
They also advised people against use of Gutka, Mainpuri and Pan.
The doctors checked cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure of people without charging them.
Cardiac society’s Hyderabad chapter coordinator Dr Feroze Memon, president Dr Nazeer Memon and secretary Dr Fazalur Rehman Memon distributed presents among participants who had asked pertinent questions and those who had kept their cholesterol and blood sugar under control.
City Taluka Nazim Moinuddin Shaikh in his concluding remarks stressed the need for holding such programmes for benefit of poor people.
