HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) has urged the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) to avoid load management on two feeders throughout the region simultaneously during Ramazan and ensure efficiency of power transmission system.

In a statement issued here on Sunday HCCI president Adeel Siddiqui said that Hesco should avoid load management during sehr and iftar timings. Hesco should consider the sacred month of Ramazan while giving effect to its load management plan throughout the region, he said.

He said that load management should not be done during business timings to ensure industrial and production activities continued so as to generate more employment and revenue generation for the national kitty.

He said that all maintenance work of feeders, transformers and transmission system should be done before Ramazan instead of imposing 10-hour long shut-downs in the name of repairs and maintenance work which badly affected life for domestic consumers and business environment as well.

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2023