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‘Under-fire’ KE chief dares Sindh govt to manage power supply on its own

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20.09.2024

• Moonis appears before PA’s committee on loadshedding, highlights challenges
• MPAs take up issue of unannounced, prolonged outages in Karachi

KARACHI: Chief Executive Officer of the K-Electric, the city’s sole power utility, on Thursday finally appeared before the Sindh Assembly’s Special Committee on loadshedding and excessive billing and categorically told the provincial government to get the company’s licence cancelled and supply electricity itself.

Informed sources said that KE CEO Moonis Alvi appeared to be as an “opinionated person” and took an “aggressive stance” from the outset of the meeting, denying any prolonged loadshedding and excessive billing in Karachi.

While the special committee members took up the issue of unannounced and prolonged power disruption in parts of the city, the CEO categorically told the committee that “no loadshedding was carried out late at night”, adding that around “70 per cent of the network is loadshedding free”, while remaining 30 per cent of the network faced issues.

As for the settlement of dues with the provincial government, he made it clear that the power utility wouldn’t make any payment unless the dues outstanding against the provincial........

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