LAHORE: The National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) says it has completed arrangements to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the consumers across the country during Eid days.

In this regard, field formations running the NTDC’s 220kV and 500kV grid stations and transmission lines have been put on high alert while ensuring a smooth power transmission and despatch to the power distribution companies (Discos) 132kV and below grid and lines system.

“We all must ensure uninterrupted power supply to distribution companies during Eidul Azha and for this, our field teams must remain alert at the National Power Control Centre and all grid stations across the country,” NTDC Managing Director (MD) Dr Rana Abdul Jabbar said at a meeting on Friday.

Jabbar took over the charge of the office of the NTDC MD for six months as a stop-gap arrangement. According to an NTDC spokesman, the new MD did BSc/ BE from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, MS Engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia, and PhD from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He has served in the power sector for 30 years and headed Fesco, Iesco, AEDB and the Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park Company.

Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2022