Recovery of dues: LESCO issues warning to defaulters

Recovery teams have been constituted at the sub-division level to ensure 100% recovery.

LAHORE: The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has warned public and private sector defaulters to clear their arrears within the stipulated period, or face the disconnection of power supply. Newly-appointed LESCO Chief Executive Muhammad Saleem told APP that: “We have launched a vigorous campaign for the recovery of arrears. All defaulters have been strictly warned irrespective of their status to clear their current bills and arrears to avoid any action which may lead to immediate disconnection of their power connection.” All concerned officials have been strictly directed to personally pursue and plead cases in the court, he added. He said that recovery teams had been constituted at the sub-division level to ensure 100% recovery of arrears, especially dead arrears from the defaulters.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 21^st, 2012.