ISLAMABAD: The shortfall of electricity has decreased as the fuel supply to private power plants has improved, DawnNews reported on Sunday.

In the wake of this development, the announced load-shedding in urban areas will last for eight to 10 hours, while rural areas will face outages for16 hours.

PEPCO sources said that the fuel supply has improved and the short fall between supply and demand has been reduced to 3,600 megawatts.

Sources also claim to reduce unannounced load-shedding in the country, and stated that in next 24 hours, the duration of power-outages in the urban and rural areas will decrease to six and eight hours.

Sources further said that the government has announced Rs.82 billion term finance certificates to ease the debts of private power plants. This step will help reduce load shedding further, they stated.