LARKANA, Dec 4: In a drive against defaulters, the management of Hesco, Larkana circle, has disconnected the power supply to 148 villages.
The superintendent engineer of Hesco, Larkana circle, Shamasuddain Shaikh, told this correspondent on Thursday that despite repeated warnings to the defaulters to clear their outstanding dues, they remained unmoved. So Hesco cut off the power supply to these villages from the Larkana circle, which comprised Larkana, Shikarpur and Jacobabad districts, and added that all transformers had also been removed from these villages.
He said that some of the villages whose power supply had been cut off included Abdul Wahid Shabrani, Lahktiya, Dost Mohammed Channa, Pahoor, Feroz Bhatti, Sharif Bhutto, Dolt Mughiri, Kundi, Dost Mohammed Metlo, Kolachi, Darra, Saindad Leghari, Sukhpur, Mehboob Sandelo, Purrano Tharo, Wasoo Kalhoro, and Mudar Lakha.
He said that around Rs100 million remained outstanding against these villages.
He said that the total amount of outstanding dues in Hesco’s Larkana circle stood at Rs2,400 million, of which the private sector owes Rs2,000 million and the government sector owes Rs400 million.
He said the vigilance team of Hesco raided the Sangi Mohalla and discovered that 200 houses were getting electricity through Kundas and only 12 houses had meters installed.
He said that the transformers of the area had been removed and the power thieves had been penalized.
DEMO: The teachers of the Adult Literacy Centre, Larkana, demonstrated outside the press club on Thursday in protest against the non-payment of their salaries.
Several teachers, including Mohammed Hussain, Ahmed Nawaz Soomro, and Wali Mohammed, alleged that their salaries had been forwarded to the assistant district officer (elementary) but he had withheld their salaries.
They alleged that by placing bogus vouchers in files in the name of providing uniforms, books and other educational material, the officials were siphoning off the amount meant for the purpose.
They demanded that their salaries be paid soon, otherwise they would launch a protest movement from Dec 10.