Housing society without electricity for six months

LAHORE:The residents of Telephone Industries of Pakistan (TIP) Employees Cooperative Housing Society Phase-II Lahore are living without electricity for the last 6, 7 months, making earnest and repeated appeals to the society management and the provincial government as well as Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) to resolve the issue on urgent basis.

While talking to APP, the residents said that the society had no electricity for a long time, and the management was doing nothing for finding a permanent solution to the problem, though they had never defaulted on payment of their electricity bills.

The residents said that earlier, the TIP society had an agreement with the adjacent society and power supply was being given to the society from there. However, about six months ago, something went wrong about the arrangement, and the power supply was disconnected from that society.

Since that time, the TIP society was managing power supply through generators for only few hours a day, the residents said while providing details. They said the electric home appliances were being damaged due to fluctuation of voltage.

When APP contacted TIP Society President Waqar A Sheikh, he said that due to mismanagement and non-fulfillment of an agreement with a private housing society the TIP residents were facing electricity issues.

He said that as per an agreement reached with the adjacent private society, the TIP society was given 30-kanal land for establishing a grid station. However, the private society failed to fulfill its promises.

About electricity provided through generators, he said that 60 per cent of the society was on Lesco temporary connections, while 40 per cent residents were being provided electricity through generators. The TIP society president promised that the management would make all sincere efforts to resolve the issues soon and it would shift all electricity meters to Lesco lines.