5-day working week: Pay your KESC Saturday bills on Monday

KARACHI: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has extended its deadline for bill payments given the two holidays declared by the government. The following Monday is the deadline for bills that have to be paid on Saturdays as banks will be closed that day. This is for customers whose bill payment deadline falls on Saturdays during the month of October. The due dates of bills falling on three Saturdays of the month have been extended to the corresponding Mondays. Thus if your bill is due on October 15 you can pay it by October 17. If the due date is October 22 you can pay your bill by October 24 and if it is October 29 then the deadline has been moved to October 31. No late fee would be charged. The government decided to reduce the working week from six days to five.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 18^th, 2011.