Power breakdown, water shortage Several localities of Peshawar hit badly

PESHAWAR: A major fault at a local grid station coupled with the routine power outages particularly at Sehr and Iftar times made life a living hell for the residents of most of localities of the provincial metropolis, while the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) remained the least concerned about the miseries of the consumers.
Residents of Faqirabad, Zaryab Colony, Afghan Colony, Sethi Town, Saeedabad, Yousafabad, Faisal Town, Momin Town, Amjad Colony Charsadda Road and other areas of the city complained that prolonged loadshedding had already made life miserable for them but the grid station wherefrom they were provided electricity developed a major fault two days ago, resulting in complete blackout in the areas.

The angry consumers said they lodged innumerable complaints with the Pesco authorities but those fell on deaf ears. They said that majority of the available phone numbers of Pesco complaint offices remained continuously busy as if they had put the receivers off. And whenever, they managed to the talk to the official on duty, they received a blunt reply that there was a major fault in the grid station and it would take sometime to repair.

The residents were of the opinion that the Pesco authorities were showing no interest in repairing the grid station. They said that the persistent power breakdown had also resulted in acute water shortage in most of the affected areas, multiplying the miseries of the people in the holy month of Ramazan.

When contacted, the Pesco spokesman Shaukat Afzal told The News that there was some fault in the grid station, which had been repaired before Sehr time, but when the power supply was resumed the transformer went out of order again. He said now the faulty transformer had been changed and the matter was resolved. He claimed that uninterrupted power supply to the entire area had been restored.