Despite recovery drive, HESCO service remains dismal: MQM-P

Problems of the consumers are far from being addressed, says MQM-P

HYDERABAD:

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has deplored that the officials of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) still exhibited anti-consumer approaches despite changes in the company's hierarchy.

MQM-P Hyderabad chapter organizer Zafar Ahmed Siddiqui and other office bearers of the party said even though the company had recovered billions of rupees from the defaulting consumers and power thieves since it began the crackdown on September 7, the problems of the consumers were far from being addressed.

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They claimed that prolonged outages, serving of detection bills, defects in the transmission system, and seeking bribes for repair and replacement of pole-mounted transformers (PMTs) continued unabated in the company.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 27^th, 2023.