KARACHI, Dec 3: The management of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation is reported to have decided to take back seven key responsibilities from Siemens, the managing partner of the KESC, in what has been described as a move to improve the overall performance of the organization.
The KESC corporate management through an official order withdrew the responsibilities of Human Resources, Procurement, Inventory Management, Fleet Management, Administration, Legal Affairs, Finance and Accounting departments from its O&M partner.
“In order to streamline the organisation and to have clear responsibility with accountability, it has been decided that all support functions will report to their corporate heads directly,” said the official order, which was signed by the KESC’s chief executive Frank Scherschmidt, chief financial officer Muhammad Asghar and chief operating officer Rolf Bergemier.
Sources in the power utility said that now the O&M partner would look after only generation, transmission, distribution, customer services and billing.The sources said that the decision to withdraw seven key functions was taken at a meeting of the KESC’s board held last month in which everyone representing the buyer of the KESC criticised the role of Siemens.
The sources observed that the decision to limit the role of the organisation would help the power utility in improving its performance and would result in ending the ongoing rift between the management and its employees.
