KARACHI, Oct 23: The Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) has chalked out a plan to reduce its transmission and distribution losses on a quarterly basis to improve financial position of the corporation.

A spokesman for the KESC in a statement on Wednesday stated that the utility managers had not applied for any fresh increase in power tariff.

“The KESC management doesn’t consider raise in power tariff as an answer to the corporation’s financial maze, and during the last three months they have designed methods to recover dues, improve organizational efficiency and devised a targeted plan for distribution and billing to reduce the losses,” the spokesman added.

He said meters have been installed in grid stations, 798 power supply feeders and 100 power transformers and the KESC has area-wise documented information on power quantum being supplied to each industrial, commercial and residential locality which has made it easy to pinpoint power theft on billing of the consumers in any particular area, immediately recovering the pilferage.

Of the current 40 per cent transmission and distribution losses, the KESC is suffering from 19 per cent technical losses which can only be controlled by fully revamping the distribution system, requiring a huge financial outlay. Therefore, the corporation is concentrating on curbing the remaining 21 per cent loss due to power theft.

The zonal officials of distribution and billing have been given the task to progressively reduce a minimum of 1 per cent loss due to power theft in their respective areas every quarter. Reduction of 1 per cent distribution loss means an earning of Rs50 million per quarter.

The KESC by installing meters in the feeders and power transformers has specifically identified area-wise power theft position.—APP