DADU, Oct 19: Officials of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Corporation, Hesco, have failed to control line losses in all the 111 sub-divisions of five circles covering 21 districts of Sindh.

Losses of 37.30 per cent were recorded during the month of September 2005.

Hesco had incurred a line loss of 38.9 million KWH during August. The total recoverable amount was estimated at Rs10203.87 million in the month of September.

A total of 6,128 connections have been in dispute 5,642 in A-I, 348 in A-II, 45 in industrial, eight in T/W and eight in other categories for one year.

There were 10,077 pending cases including 8,941 in A-I, 903 in A-II, 79 in industrial, 146 in T/W and eight in other categories since last one year due to inefficiency of the concerned officials and consumers were running from pillar to post to get their problems solved without any success.

In Hyderabad circle-I, provincial and federal government connections, the monthly billing was 124.8 KWH, for which an amount of Rs37.61 million was recovered, which stood at 30.14 per cent, with Hesco sustaining a loss of 7.42 per cent.

However, according to Hesco’s monthly report, Rs376.21 million were recoverable from government connections in this circle.

In private sector in Hyderabad circle-I, Rs1367.26 million were recoverable while spill over amount was Rs137.24 million.

Hyderabad circle-II included Kotri and Dadu which are seen as two important divisions of Hesco, with Kotri being an industrial area while Dadu is the native district of federal minister for water and power, Liaquat Ali Jatoi.

Jamshoro and Kotri experienced load-shedding as the Hesco officials were accused of suspending power supply to the common consumers and diverting the load to the industries.

Hesco billed 105.12 KWH to federal and provincial government connections in September for which Rs35.52 million were recovered which stood at only 33.79 per cent.

In private sector in circle-II, Rs1,713 million were to be recovered, while Rs88.78 million were spill over, 759.91 million connections were disconnected, Rs82.53 million arrears were set aside and Rs484.50 million were outstanding against the running consumers.

In the five divisions of Nawabshah circle, Hesco billed 100.42 KWH to federal and provincial government connections, for which it received a payment of Rs52.941 million which stood at 52.19 per cent.

An amount of Rs596.21 million was recoverable against private consumers in Nawabshah circle. where spill over was Rs99.09 million. An amount of Rs13.72 million arrears were set aside and Rs94.85 million were declared as arrears against the running consumers.

In Sukkur circle comprising Sukkur, Ghotki and Khairpur districts, 182.30 KWH were billed and a payment of Rs153.33 was received.

The percentage remained 29.25 and recoverable amount was shown as Rs550.69 million against the federal and provincial government connections.

In Nawabshah circle, Rs1493.37 million were recoverable against private consumes while an amount of Rs104.43 million stood as spill over, Rs44.30 million cases of arrears were set aside and Rs571.33 million are still outstanding against running consumers.