HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) is stepping up pace of anti-power theft campaign in order to ensure zero loadshedding and help reduce Pakistan’s circular debt in power sector.

Hesco chief executive officer Bashir Ahmed, who holds additional charge of the power utility, said in a statement issued here on Monday that the company would have to reduce line losses so that circular debt could be curtailed.

As man as 13,136 power thieves had been identified and 1,570 power pilferage cases had been lodged, he said.

He informed that 10,273 applications had been filed with police seeking registration of FIR and so far Rs9.90bn had been recovered from consumers during the campaign launched on Sept 7.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2023