TOBA TEK SINGH: Kamalia is being supplied electricity from the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) instead of the Multan Electric Power Company from Tuesday.

Fesco Chief Executive Chaudhry Rasheed Aslam and PML-N MNA Chaudhry Asadur Rehman inaugurated the newly-upgraded Kamalia grid station.

Kamalia Executive Engineer Afzal Kathia said previously power supply to the Kamalia city and villages of its subdivision were being supplied by Mepco through its Vehari transmission line. Now, Kamalia grid station has been upgraded and connected to the Gojra power load enhancing grid station which was recently built by the National Transmission and Dispatch Company Limited in Gojra.

He said Rs560 million had been spent on this project while a number of new transformers had been replaced with old and out of order transformers.

Mr Aslam said Kamalia consumers who used to face brownouts would get full power load as a 25-kilometre transmission line had been installed to supply power from the grid station to the city.

He announced that there would be no ban on the issue of new connections of electricity in Kamalia in the future.

BAGS: On the order of Supreme Court’s judicial commission, ballot bags were de-sealed amid strict security in the district accounts office on Tuesday.

Additional District and Sessions’ Court Judge Amer Habib supervised the process to recover Form No 15 from the bags.

CONVENTION: Scores of activists of the National Labour Federation (NLF) and its allied trade unions attended the district level convention on Tuesday.

NLF Central President Rana Mahmood Ali demanded that the government provide relief to the working class.

He also demanded raise in the salaries of workers in accordance with the ratio of price hike.

He criticised the recent raise in the prices of petroleum products and called it a mini budget before the new fiscal budget. Punjab NLF President Zulfiqar Sarmadi, divisional president Majeed Salik, secretary Rao Nusrat, TMA Employees Union President Muhammad Yousaf and Rickshaw Taxi Drivers’ Association President Abdul Jabbar Bhuller also spoke.

Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2015

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