LAHORE, April 29: The Water and Power Development Authority has not reduced supply to the KESC and it will continue to provide the facility above its agreed quota despite huge backlog of arrears, Wapda acting chairman Imtiaz Anjum and Member Power Mohammad Anwar Khalid said here on Saturday.

Speaking at a news conference, they said the KESC could receive only 300 megawatts from Wapda on early Friday because one of its circuits had tripped.

“This is not our fault and if the KESC wants to get the required supply, it will have to upgrade its system,” they said. The officials said Wapda had not received any complaint from the KESC about short supply.

The supply to the KESC improved afterwards as it received 535Mw in the afternoon.

The officials said they were clarifying Wapda’s position after reports on electronic media in which the authority had been wrongly blamed for short supply.

Mr Khalid said the quota set by the water and power ministry for the KESC was 550MW. By March it was given a maximum supply of 610MW.

He said there was no supply constraint from Wapda and it could provide more than the quota despite the fact that the company owed Rs5.835 billion to the authority by March 31. The KESC had cleared Rs1.323 billion but the arrears would jump to Rs7.512 billion after the billing of April, he said.