Hurting production: Traders demand end to loadshedding
Urge government, IESCO to look into the issue.
Abdul Rauf Alam said that thousands of workers were employed in the local industry and sudden increase in electricity loadshedding had rendered them idle for long hours. STOCK IMAGE
ISLAMABAD:
Local industrialists protesting against prolong electricity loadshedding by the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco), have demanded of the government to look into the issue.
They argue that the loadshedding have almost crippled industrial activity. They called upon the government to look into the issue on a priority basis to save the industry from further damage.
In a meeting at the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), businessmen lamented that Iesco had started electricity loadshedding for the industry during prime working hours, from 10am to 2pm, which had badly affected production schedules.
They said that the situation had badly disturbed daily production targets of almost all local industrial units including marble, steel, pharmaceuticals, edible oil, flour, food processing, soap etc.
They urged upon Iesco to reconsider the loadshedding scheduled and take urgent measure to minimise it, so that local industrialists could be saved from further losses.
ICCI President Muzzamil Hussain Sabri, Founder Group Chairman Abdul Rauf Alam and ICCI Senior Vice President Muhammad Shakeel Munir said that the prime minister had assured ending power loadshedding for industries, adding the recent move by the Iesco was totally against the stated position of the government.
Abdul Rauf Alam said that thousands of workers were employed in the local industry and sudden increase in electricity loadshedding had rendered them idle for long hours.
He said that if power shutdown issue was not tackled on an urgent basis by the Iesco, hundreds of works could lose their jobs, which would increase unemployment and social instability.
The industrialists stressed that Iesco should keep larger economic interests of the country supreme and take local industry on board to finalise a consensus loadshedding schedule that should ensures minimum losses to the industrialists.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 2nd, 2015.
Local industrialists protesting against prolong electricity loadshedding by the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco), have demanded of the government to look into the issue.
They argue that the loadshedding have almost crippled industrial activity. They called upon the government to look into the issue on a priority basis to save the industry from further damage.
In a meeting at the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), businessmen lamented that Iesco had started electricity loadshedding for the industry during prime working hours, from 10am to 2pm, which had badly affected production schedules.
They said that the situation had badly disturbed daily production targets of almost all local industrial units including marble, steel, pharmaceuticals, edible oil, flour, food processing, soap etc.
They urged upon Iesco to reconsider the loadshedding scheduled and take urgent measure to minimise it, so that local industrialists could be saved from further losses.
ICCI President Muzzamil Hussain Sabri, Founder Group Chairman Abdul Rauf Alam and ICCI Senior Vice President Muhammad Shakeel Munir said that the prime minister had assured ending power loadshedding for industries, adding the recent move by the Iesco was totally against the stated position of the government.
Abdul Rauf Alam said that thousands of workers were employed in the local industry and sudden increase in electricity loadshedding had rendered them idle for long hours.
He said that if power shutdown issue was not tackled on an urgent basis by the Iesco, hundreds of works could lose their jobs, which would increase unemployment and social instability.
The industrialists stressed that Iesco should keep larger economic interests of the country supreme and take local industry on board to finalise a consensus loadshedding schedule that should ensures minimum losses to the industrialists.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 2nd, 2015.