SWABI, Feb 9: The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) has failed to provide electricity connections to over 2,000 households in several regions of the district, who have applied for new connections during the last three years, reliable sources told this correspondent on Wednesday.

The sources said that the applicants had completed the Pesco’s requirements and deposited the security and other charges with demand notice for getting connection, but they had not been provided electricity.

They said that every time an applicant contacted the company’s office the officials told them that they would soon get the power meters.

The provision of the new power meters in the area was one of the main demands of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf when its local leaders set up a protest camp in front of the Pesco offices a month ago. The officials had assured the protesters then that they would soon get the meters.

When contacted, a Pesco official at sub-division, Swabi-I, said that they had received 570 new meters, which would be allotted to the deserving people. He said that priority would be given to the old applicants. —Correspondent