MIANWALI, April 5: Unscheduled loadshedding continued here on Thursday in the district while traders have threatened to go on strike if power suspension continued. A delegation of local traders association called on Wapda authorities and demanded announcement of exact schedule of loadshedding.

An official requesting anonymity told this correspondent that Mianwali grid station fed eight grids in the district situated at Piplan, Wan-Bhachran, Kalabagh, Makarwal, Daudkhel, Chashma, besides two in the Mianwali city.

“The Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) office is controlling load supply schedule and in a day many times they convey instructions to main grid at Mianwali to decrease or increase load supply.

Then these instructions are passed on to other grid stations which manage supply in their respective areas.”

He said loadshedding at each feeder was being done for one hour only and sometimes officials at some feeders, specifically in rural areas, were forced to resort to loadshedding many times in a day.

When contacted Mianwali Wapda XEN Zahoor Ahmed termed the unannounced loadshedding a load management process and annual maintenance in power house.

He expressed his ignorance about continuity of loadshedding programme in future.