ISLAMABAD, May 18: Wapda Chairman Tariq Hamid on Thursday briefed the National Assembly standing committee on water and power about the restoration of power supply to the quake-hit areas.

The committee met at the Parliament House under the chairmanship of MNA Ghulam Murtaza Maitla.

The Wapda chairman said restoration of electricity to the affected areas was a difficult task, but with extreme efforts of Wapda personnel power was restored within three days after the October 8 catastrophe.

Responding to a query about the village electrification programme throughout the country, the chairman assured the committee that all the villages would have the facility of electricity by the end of

2007.

He also informed the committee about the policy of converting illegal connections into legal ones in Khuzdar district, Balochistan.