More Loadshedding

Heavy loadshedding starts

Friday, May 29, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE Loadshedding has started again for the duration of more than 10 hours in most of the urban areas and more than 12 hours in the rural areas of the provincial capital after a gap of two days.  It was learnt on Thursday that during the previous two days, the duration of the loadshedding had decreased to seven hours in the urban areas and 10 hours in the rural areas.  People from different areas of the city told The News that the decrease in the loadshedding duration gave them a bit of respite but now the situation had become as it was before as the temperature rose again after two days.  People from Allama Iqbal Town, Township, Samanabad, Mozang, Shadman, Walled City, Chungi Amar Sadhu, Kot Lakh Pat, Sandha, Sabza Zar, Multan Road, Judicial Colony, Johar Town and Thokar Niaz Beg told The News that they had been really upset due to loadshedding during Wednesday night.  They further said that despite presidential orders to Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) that there would be no loadshedding during the night time, there was severe and continuous outage of power during the night and the unscheduled trippings were other than that.  According to LESCO spokesman, the shortfall between demand and supply was 843 MW on the evening of Thursday and the scheduled loadshedding duration were 8 and 10 hours in the urban and rural areas respectively.  When contacted, Pakistan Electric Power Company spokesman was not available to tell about the power crisis.