November 04, 2008	Tuesday	Ziqa'ad 5, 1429

MITHI, Nov 3: Intermittent loadshedding is being carried out in the towns and villages of Tharparkar district on daily basis, causing immense hardships for people.

Sources at the grid stations of Mithi, Diplo, Islamkot, Nagarparkar, Chhachhro and Chelhar told this correspondent that high ups at Hesco’s power dispatch centre at Jamshoro had directed them to carry out loadshedding for six hours in Tharparkar district on daily basis.

The sources said that according to a loadshedding schedule sent to them from the centre on Sunday, Mithi grid station was to carry out loadshedding from 6am to 7am, 10am to 11am, 2pm to 3pm, 6pm to 7pm, 10pm to 11pm and 1am to 2am on daily basis. Other grid stations of Tharparkar had also been directed to carry out similar loadshedding, they added.

Our Naushahro Feroze correspondent adds: Loadshedding continued here on Monday. The in-charge of local grid station said that the schedule of loadshedding had been changed on the directives from Hyderabad.