Control Rooms Set Up To Ensure Smooth Supply Of Electricity During Polls

The Power Division has established two control rooms, one each at Islamabad and Lahore to monitor, coordinate and take necessary steps where required for ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply during polling and completion of counting across the country on July 25, 2018.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Jul, 2018 ) :The Power Division has established two control rooms, one each at Islamabad and Lahore to monitor, coordinate and take necessary steps where required for ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply during polling and completion of counting across the country on July 25, 2018.

The Control room at Islamabad would be supervised by Additional Secretary II, Waseem Mukhtar while Additional Secretary I, Aamir Ahmed would head control room at WAPDA House, Lahore, said a press statement issued here.

Secretary Power Division, Rizwan Memon would remain in close contact and would monitor overall situation of the country.

The monitoring teams would also keep updating Federal Minister for Energy, Syed Ali Zafar.

Power Division has already issued necessary directions to National Power Control Center and all DISCOs to ensure uninterrupted power supply across country on polling day i.e July 25 till completion of counting.

On directions of Power Division each Distribution Company had established special election control room at their headquarters.

Operation Director of each DISCO would sit in respective Power Dispatch Center for overall monitoring.

Besides at each sub-division level special ground staff and emergency gangs have been deputed to attend any fault at their areas in order to ensure uninterrupted power supply on polling day.

Additionally all Grid Station staff and officers would remain on duty and vigilant for ensuring Grid Station Supply.

The DISCOs would keep ready emergency generator already available in respective DISCOs to meet any emergency.

Industry would remain off on polling day in order to meet any demand and supply gap.

Similarly a well worked out plan has been prepared by all the DISCOS in coordination with NPCC to reduce load on feeders to avoid forced load shedding.

The DISCOS have already provided additional material to the regional and field stores which would remain open on polling day for issuance of same.

DISCOS have also been directed to ensure well equipped vehicles ready at each sub-division level besides ensuring ample quantity of transformers Federal Compliant Cell at Power Division willalso function to address complaints of the consumers across the country on telephone numbers051-9103888, 051-9204430 and 051-9206834.