There would be no compromise on safety because safety of the staff is top priority of FESCO said Executive Engineer (XEN) Regional Training Center (RTC) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) while addressing a certificate distribution ceremony in connection with two days workshops on the top of "Electrical Safety Requirement". He said that any kind of negligence in line with safety of staff would not be tolerated. He further said that company is striving hard and utilizing all available sources to provide save the working environment to the FESCO officials and line staff. He said that organization of such workshops not only provide familiarity with changing circumstances but also effective in performing duty safely. The participants of workshop was provide detailed information about grounding, earthing, power cable insulation, safety requirement, ground clearance, unsafe act and unsafe condition. Assistant Director Training Shahid Mehmood, Abdul Waheed, Aziz ullah Khan, Amir Shahzad, Abdul Jabbar, Kabral Saeed Abdal and large number of FESCO officials attended the workshop. At the end of workshop XEN, RTC Naeem Akbar Kahloon distributed the certificates among the participants.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = On the special directives of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed, safety seminars and T&P parades organized at Khanuana & Satiana sub division under the chair of Superintending Engineer (SE) FESCO First circle Muhammad Saeed. During his address (SE), Muhammad Saeed advised the all line staff to take all safety measures and implement the SOP issued by FESCO authority before staff of work on live lines. He warned that strict action would be initiated against the line staff found working without T&P and PTW. He said that surprise visits of the safety inspectors and implementation of safety code in FESCO is improving the situation. He further said that FESCO has started the Best Lineman Award to promote safety culture and evaluate the performance of line staff so all line staff should use the proper T&P and safety gadget to prove them as best. Technical Officer (TO) first circle Malik Naeem Javed and XEN Jaranwala Division Ibrar Ahmed also addressed the seminar and directed the staff to implement the principle of safety first. 

Fatal as well as non-fatal accidents can be reduced only through introducing safety-first principle and promotion of safety culture in the company, there would be no compromise on safety because human life is most precious said the speakers while addressing a workshop on the topic of "Training the Trainers" held here under the FESCO Health Safety & Environment (HSE) Directorate. During his speech, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed said that FESCO is spending millions of rupees for the safety of the FESCO staff and consumers. He said that such workshops not only provide information about new safety culture but also provide opportunity to learn about new trends at international level. He further said that the FESCO Board of Directors (BODs) is giving top priority to the safety and related issues and this workshop was conducted in the special direction of BOD's HSE committee. Convener FESCO Health Safety Environment (HSE) and Quality Assurance Committee Suleman Najeeb Khan said that operation staff always remains in danger so it is mandatory for them to be aware about the safety codes, new research and development. He said that such workshops "Training the Trainers" should be organized on monthly basis so that participants of workshops could transfer their knowledge and experience to juniors gained from here, which would be helpful to promote the safety culture. BOD member Barrister Irfan Chattha highlighted the legal aspects of filing lawsuit against electricity theft and defaulters. He advised to register the FIR and file case under section 462-N so that strict action could be initiated against them. He also stressed upon the promotion of safety culture and reiterated the commitment to provide the safe and working environment to FESCO staff. He also conveyed the safety message of BOD Chairman Syed Husnain Haider to the participants of the workshop. Renowned safety consultant Sheikh Tahir Saleem delivered a lecture on the topic earthing, grounding and other safety techniques and informed the importance of earthing. He said that proper adoption of earthing not only safe the gadget to burn but also protect the common man from fatal accidents. He also highlighted the most common safety code in the world.

Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has introduced the latest android mobile app "FESCO Light". The basic aim of this app is to facilitate the FESCO consumers. This app can be downloaded from the play store of any android mobile phone. The FESCO consumers belonging to eight district including Faisalabad, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Bhakkar, Mianwali, Khushab, Chiniot and Sargodha can easily register after entry their name, electricity bill reference number, CNIC and mobile phone on this app. After registration & sign in consumers cannot get information about load management schedule, duplicate bill, registration of electricity related complaints and information regarding previous electricity bills but also estimate the cost of electricity bill through bills estimator. In this connection, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) FESCO Engr. Bashir Ahmed said that use of Information Technology (IT) is facilitating both the consumers and the department in view of the needs and requirements  of the modern age. FESCO consumers can avail the various services provided by FESCO though this state of the art android app, he added. He further said that a satisfied consumer reflects the excellent performance of the company. He said that FESCO is striving hard to provide the maximum facilities to its consumers because they are precious assets of FESCO.

Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has issued final notices to 11 government departments for payment of 535.7 million. On the special directives of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) FESCO Engr. Bashir Ahmed special recovery campaign from government departments has started in FESCO. According to details, different government department are defaulters of Rs.535.7 million including Pakistan Railways has liability of Rs.1.42 million, Agriculture University Rs.24.24 million, Punjab Police Rs.5.93 million, WASA Rs.473.16 million, District Health Rs.4.75 million, Revenue District Government Rs.1.05million. TMA Lyallpur Town Rs.4.68 million, TMA Madina Town Rs.2.09 million, TMA Iqbal Town 4.08 million, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines 10.24 million and National Highway Authority (NHA) 4.06 million.

Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) and Allied Bank Limited (ABL) inked Centralized Collection agreement for payment of electricity bills through different digital channels including debit cards, credit cards, ATM and Internet banking. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) FESCO Engr. Bashir Ahmed and Regional Head ABL Ibrar Saleem, signed the agreement. Under this agreement, FESCO consumers all over Pakistan would be able to pay the electricity bills through ABL. In addition, ABL would online transfer the amount of bills collected in FESCO account on a daily basis, thus payment of bills through ABL digital channels would be immediately updated. In this connection CEO FESCO Engr. Bashir Ahmed said that through this agreement FESCO consumers would pay the electricity bills immediately and easily at their homes. The ceremony was also attended by the Chief Financial Officer Mian Nazir Ahmed, Chief Commercial Officer Muhammad Nawaz Qulla, Regional Head Allied Bank Ibrar Saleem, Regiona Head Banking Services Group Munir Zia Haider Dar and Manager Direct Sales Imran Arshad were also present.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed hold an open court at FESCO headquarters here today to listen the consumers complaints online, at this occasion he said that FESCO is striving hard to provide the uninterrupted power supply to its consumers  round the clock in all over the FESCO region including Faisalabad, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Bhakkar, Mianwali, Chiniot, Khushab and Sargodha. He directed all Chief Engineers (CEs) and Superintending Engineers (SEs) to hold online open courts to solve the electricity consumers’ problem immediately. He said that smooth and continuous power supply to consumers is top priority of FESCO, in this connection FESCO officers and officials are performing their duty with full dedication. He lauded the performance of special teams of field staff, Monitoring Cell, 118 and toll free number 080066554 and said that they are ensuring to solve the consumers problems immediately. He said that in the current situation of coronavirus FESCO workers are performing their duty without any fear and working in the front line to facilitate the consumers. In view of coronavirus, an online open court was arranged. Meanwhile, about over 50 consumers informed the CEO about their electricity problems online. In addition, the CEO also remained online through facebook page. He issued orders to solve the consumers’ complaints rapidly and informed them about its progress within the next 24 hours.

On the special directives of Minister for Energy (Power Division) Hammad Azhar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed will hold an online Open Court on 22 October (Friday) at FESCO Headquarters. In view of the current corona pandemic, he would hear consumers’ complaints online from 3pm to 4pm on telephone number 041-9220290 and 041-9220618. The consumers belonging to FESCO jurisdiction including Faisalabad, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Sargodha, Mianwali, Khushab, Chiniot and Bhakkar can call him for early redress of their complaints.

Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) is committed to the water, food and energy security of the country. At present, it has been constructing as many as 10 projects in water and hydropower sectors under ‘Decade of Dams’, to be completed in a phased manner from 2023 to 2029. Chairman WAPDA Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain (Retd) expressed these views while addressing the students and the faculty members at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. The Chairman said that WAPDA has been tremendously contributing as a vibrant organization towards national development by harnessing the vital resource of water. The under construction WAPDA projects include five dams, three hydropower projects, one canal and one water supply scheme. Diamer Basha Dam, Mohmand Dam, Dasu Hydropower Project, Nai Gaj Dam, Kachhi Canal Extension, Sindh Barrage and K-IV Project are to name a few.With completion of 10 under construction WAPDA projects, the gross water storage capacity in Pakistan will increase from 13 million acre feet (MAF) to more than 24 MAF with an addition of 11.7 MAF, sufficient to irrigate another 1.6 Million Acres of land. In addition, 950 million gallons water per day would also be made available for drinking purpose to Karachi and Peshawar. The installed hydel generation capacity will be doubled to cross 18000 MW with an addition of 9000 MW on completion of these projects. The under construction WAPDA projects will also provide about 35,000 job opportunities during the construction, he further said. Dilating upon the grim water scenario, Chairman WAPDA said the per capita water availability in Pakistan has come down from 5650 cubic meter in 1951 to an alarming level of 908 cubic meter per annum, pushing us to the stage of water-scarce country. Pakistan can store only 10 percent of its annual river flows against the world average of 40 percent. Ironically, instead of increasing water storage capacity, Pakistan has lost about one-fourth storage of the dams. The live water storage capacity that used to be 16.26 MAFin 1976 has reduced to 13.68 MAF, which equals to only 30 days carry over capacity. India has carry over capacity of 170 days, Egypt 700 days and America 900 days. The carry over water storage capacity has to be increased from 30 days to 120 days. In order to tackle the impending water scarcity, we need to have more water storages besides practicing good water conservation and management strategies, the Chairman said. Earlier, Vice Chancelor, University of Agriculture Faisalabad Professor Dr.Iqrar Ahmad Khan welcomed the Chairman WAPDA and briefed him about the contribution, the university has been made for development of agriculture in Pakistan. He also informed the Chairman about adoption of innovative technologies in academics and on-farm sides. Later, the Chairman WAPDA visited Main Library of the university to witness the World Mango Encyclopedia. He also visited Faculty of Agri-Engineering & Technology, Labs and Engineering Workshop.

The efforts of the Akhuwat Microfinance Bank for the provision of the interest free loans to the deserving and poor people and creation of a compassionate and prosperous society on the principles of brotherhood and companionship of Madinah is appreciable, said Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO), he was addressing a ceremony held at FESCO central mosque to distribute the cheques worth 6 million among the 132 people. Engr. Bashir Ahmed further said that Akhuwat has provided interest free loans under the Ehsas program to millions of people and this noble cause is imitative for the pleasure of Allah. The different projects of the Akhuwat including Akhwat schools, colleges, cloth bank, food bank, health services, fountain house and housing schemes are playing their pivotal role for the creation of a welfare society. Member Standing Committee Dr Khalid Mehmood Shouq, Khalid Mehmood, former Chairman APTMA renowned industrialist Ch Habib Gujjar also addressed the function and said that dream of Dr Amjad Saqib come in true through Islamic MicroFinance which is base on the sacrifice and brotherhood. They said that Akhuwat has distributed 150 billion among the 4.5 million families while its recovery is 100 percent. Later, CEO Engr. Bashir Ahmed distributed the cheque among the deserving families.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed issued orders for 100% vaccination of the FESCO officers, officials and their families, in case of noncompliance till 15 October they have to face the stoppage of their salaries. He said that the process for corona vaccination is continued at WAPDA Hospital Faisalabad so all the FESCO staff should be vaccinated which is not only their national obligation but also a source to save themselves and their families from Covid-19. Similarly, special mobile vaccination teams are working at all five operation circles of FESCO to vaccinate the not only FESCO staff but also the general public, he added. He said that a special campaign is at full swing in FESCO to create awareness for corona vaccination while banners, steamers and pamphlets have also been displayed at all Sub Divisional Officers, Customer Services Center, Revenue Offices and Circle Offices for the information of FESCO staff as well as general public. He further said that corona is a deadly virus and precaution is the only way of prevention from it. He advised the field staff to wear face masks, use the hand sanitizers and avoid the embracing on duty and maintain social distance. He strongly directed all the staff to ensure the vaccination to save all from coronavirus.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed said that tradition for providing jobs to the children of deceased officials who died during performing their official duty would be continued in future because such employees are shining stars of the company, he was addressing a ceremony held here at FESCO Headquarters for distribution of appointment letters among children of the deceased employees. He said that company has lot of expectations on new recruitment so they should devote their abilities for betterment of company & customer services. He directed the newly appointed employees to perform their duty with full zeal, dedication and honesty. He further said that their appointment is the result of their parents hard work and dedication with their official duty so they should also follow the footstep of their parents. The newly appointed are included Faisal Hayat as Accounts Assistant, M Zeeshan UDC, Faisal Nadeem Gate Clerk, Wasif Asghar SSO-II, Sohail Akram Accounts Assistant, Sana Munir Gate Clerk, Bilal Yaseen Commercial Assistant, Zain Hassan UDC, Wasim Shahzad Store Clerk, M Sami Helper M&T, M Waqas ALM, Bashart Ali LS-II, Aqib Jawad JSK, M Muzammil UDC, Khushi Muhammad ALM, Arslan Ashraf ALM, Uzair Ahmed UDC, M Mustansar Iqbal Commercial Assistant, M Arslan Mehmood SSO-II and Khurram Mashi as Sanitary Worker. Later CEO Engr. Bashir Ahmed distributed the appointment letters among 20 children of deceased employees. Chief Engineer Operation M. Farooq, Director General (HR&A) Nasar Hayat Maken, Add DG (HR) Ather Ayub Ch and Director (PR) Tahir Sheikh were also present at this function.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed has declared the Peoples Colony Division as model Division of FESCO region and said that provision of excellent services to consumers is top priority of FESCO, he was presiding over a meeting as Peoples Colony of Division. He directed the FESCO officers and officials that consumers’ service should be their motto. He said that the process for installation of new transformers, change of rotten electricity poles, two phase transformers, D-Fitting set & bus bar is continued all over the FESCO region for the improvement of the distribution system which is emerging with significant results. In view of that Peoples Colony Division is consisting upon the posh areas of the Faisalabad city he declared Peoples Colony Division as model Division of FESCO and said that in first phase, applicant of the Peoples Colony Division can apply for new connection through any Customer Services Center of the city while staff of the Division would be restricted to complete the all process and also inform the applicant all steps through SMS. These steps would consist upon receiving a file, issuance of demand notice and verification of test report etc. During the meeting Executive Engineer (XEN) Peoples Colony Division Zibtadul Zia briefed the CEO about the overall performance of the Peoples Colony Division. CEO Engr. Bashir Ahmed appreciated the XEN and his team and expressed satisfaction over their performance and hoped that the same spirit would be continued in future. Chief Engineer Operation Mian Ghulam Farooq and Sub Divisional officers of PC Division were also present during the meeting.

Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has electrified 170 villages in its region during the current year with an estimated cost of Rs.460 million. According to details, the FESCO construction directorate also completed 142 Low-Tension (LT) proposals and seven High-Tension (HT) proposals during this period and spent Rs 460.101 million on these projects. One special directive of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) FESCO Engr. Bashir Ahmed, under the supervision of Project Director (PD) Construction FESCO Mian Anwar Project Directorate spent Rs 62.656 million on completion of 2 HT proposals in Faisalabad, Rs 19.322 million on 2 HT proposals in Jhang, Rs 10.859 million on one HT proposal in Sargodha and Rs 76.539 million on 2 HT proposals in Mianwali. Similarly, Rs 21.678 million were spent on electrification of 26 villages in Faisalabad, Rs 48.11 million on electrification of 43 villages in Jhang, Rs 75.582 million on electrification of 56 villages in Mianwali and Rs 72.875 million on electrification of 45 villages in Sargodha. Rupees 24.452 million was spent on completion of 51 LT proposals in Faisalabad, Rs 11.434 million on 15 LT proposals in Mianwali, Rs 24.11 million on 54 LT proposals in Jhang and Rs 12.484 million on 22 LT proposals in Sargodha. CEO FESCO Engr. Bashir Ahmed has appreciated the performance of the Project Construction Directorate and directed them to complete the more projects with the same zeal and dedication so that maximum relief could be provided to the FESCO consumers.

On special directives of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed all five circles of FESCO region have started the Annual Maintenance Program of the HT/LT lines to ensure the uninterrupted power supply to its consumers. In a letter issued by Chief Engineer (Operation) FESCO Ghulam Farooq, operation staff has directed to carry out the comprehensive patrolling of all 11KV feeders till 20 September and inform about the nature and location  of discrepancies along with requirement of material for rectification of the discrepancy. In this connection, special constituted teams would the rectify the discrepancies including tree trimming, 11KV jumpers to be set right, D-sets replacement, Damaged HT/LT poles, Tilted HT/LT poles, X-Arms replacement, 11KV Disk replacement, 11KV Pin insulators, replacement off deteriorated conductor, replacement of off size conductor, set right of loose sag, Knee braces installation, maintenance of transformers, removal of hanging kites, threads and Panaflexs in all five circles of FESCO region (First, Second, Mianwali, Sargodha and Jhang). CEO FESCO Engr. Bashir Ahmed would personally monitor the performance of the patrolling on weekly basis while location wise (before & after) snaps of discrepancies would be prepared in the shape of booklets for submission of progress to the Board of Directors (BODs) FESCO. According to a FESCO spokesman, this step would not only be helpful to ensure the interrupted power supply but also a source for provision of excellent services to FESCO consumers.

FESCO Athlete Haider Ali won first-ever gold medal for Pakistan's in Tokyo Paralympic Games, in Men's discus throw competition. Haider threw a 55.26 meters throw and scored the best distance. The silver medal was bagged by Ukraine's athlete with a 52.43 meters throw, while Brazilian athlete won bronze with a 51.86 throw. Earlier, Haider had won two medals, a silver in Beijing and a Bronze in Rio for Pakistan. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed has congratulated him on this achievement and said that Haider Ali would continue his efforts to win various honors and medals for Pakistan in the future and bring good name for the country as well as FESCO.

On the special directives of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed FESCO First circle in initiating strict action against the power theft in the circle. In this connection, under the supervision of Superintending Engineer (SE) First Circle Muhammad Saeed special task forces and surveillance teams of the all six divisions including Civil Line, Abdullahpur, Chak Jhumra, Jaranwala, Chiniot and Lalian, caught 130 power pilferers red handed while stealing electricity. According to details, during special campaign against power theft, 21434 electricity meters were checked and 130 consumers found involved in power theft. These pilferers were stealing electricity through different means including direct supply from PVC cable, hole in meter, change of polarity and neutral break. These power pilferers were totally charged Rs.13.6 million in shape of detection bills while Rs.5.5 million has also been recovered. 41 FIRs have been registered in concern police stations of the Sub Divisional Offices. In this context, SE First circle Muhammad Saeed told that special campaign against the power theft would be continued in future so that power pilferers could be permanently eliminate from FESCO.

FESCO is striving hard for the welfare of staff and solution of all problems being confronted by them, said Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed. He was addressing a delegation of All WAPDA Hydro Electric Workers Union, who met him under the supervision of General Secretary Khurshid Ahmed Khan. He said that there is an ideal relationship between the FESCO administration and labor union which is helping to solve the officials problem rapidly. He further said that protection of the line staff from fatal and non-fatal accidents is top priority of FESCO, in this connection FESCO is purchasing safety instruments and gadgets worth millions of rupees. He also directed the Sub Divisional Officers (SDOs) to personally monitor the T&P parade and check the safety instruments on a daily basis. He made it clear that the FESCO administration, union and staff would have to work together to make the FESCO a profitable entity so that every employee of FESCO could enjoy its fruit. During his speech General Secretary Hydro Union Khurshid Ahmed Khan paid great tribute to the CEO FESCO on labor friendly measures and said ensure full cooperation of the union to make FESCO a top level distribution company among all DISCOs. He demanded the finalization of the promotion cases at company and circle level. He also demanded to provide staff according to the yardstick and revision of yardstick according to the numbers of consumers. General Manager Technical Khadim Hussain Lara, DG (HR&A) Nasar Hayat Maken, Add: DG (HR) Ather Ahub Ch, Director (PR) Tahir Sheikh, Regional Chairman Hydro Union Ch Sarfraz Hundal and others were also present on this occasion.  

On special directives of Ministry of Energy (Power Division) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed FESCO has initiated a massive crackdown against power theft in all five operation circles of FESCO including First, Second, Sargodha, Jhang and Mianwali. During this special campaign 482 power pilferers red handed while stealing electricity and imposed over 61 million penalty and registered FIR against 159 power pilferers during the month of August 2021. According to details, special Divisional Task Forces and M&T team are checking the electricity meters of domestic, agriculture, commercial and industrial consumers round the clock to trace out the power theft. In this connection, special teams of FESCO region totally checked 135684 electricity connections and found 482 consumers involved in power pilferage. 403 consumers were stealing electricity direct from PVC cable, 38 through tampering of meter, 22 using shunt system in meter, 13 meter tilting and 6 through hole in meter. These power pilferers imposed fine of Rs.61 million in the shape of detection bills and registered FIRs against the 159 consumers. CEO FESCO Engr. Bashir Ahmed has made an appeal to the public that they should immediately inform the FESCO about any kindly of electricity theft around their surroundings on FESCO toll free No.118, 0800-66554 or Ministry of Power Division hotline No. 051-9103888 so that immediate action could be initiated against power pilferers. He further said that the special campaign would be continued till the elimination of power pilferage from FESCO. 

On the special directives of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed FESCO Safety Directorate is fully activated in all five operation circles of FESCO region to save the line staff from fatal as well as non-fatal accidents and initiating strict departmental action on violation of the safety codes and measures. In this connection, during the last one year job allowance worth 5 lac was deducted from the salaries of 50 linemen while departmental action was initiated against the 10 officials. During the period of July 2020 to June 2021 Safety Directorate and Safety Control room under the supervision of Deputy Director Safety Muhammad Saeed Raza paid surprise visits during the shutdown and other maintenance work and found the M Arshad, M Azam,  Nawaz, and Atta Muhammad of garden colony sub division, Farooq and M Shafiq of Samundari road sub division, M Sarfraz of  city sub division, M Khalid  and M Sagheer of Jaranwala road sub division, Anyat Rasool civil lines sub division, Ashraf Nazir and Waheed Saeed of Gulberg sub division, M  Naseer Sargodha road sub division, M Idrees City Samundari sub division, M Shafiq & M Waqas of Islam pura sub division, M Boota & M Rafiq Hajiabad sub division, Rashid  Naeed, Talib Hussain, Rizwan Ali & Yasir Muslim Town sub division, Ibrar, M Usman, M Younas & Ashraf Anjum Batala Colony sub division, M Mushtaq & Wasim Ashraf People Colony sub division, M Riaz Madina Town sub division, Akram Ali & Toqeer Ali Kareem Town sub division, M Shahzad & M Ali Bakar Mandi sub division,Khawar Hussain & Awais Akram construction sub division, Muqadas Nazimabad sub division, M Shahbaz Faizabad sub division, Abdul Ghaffar, Abdul Sattar & M Shahbaz Manawala sub division, Rashid Ali, Tariq Mehmood & M Shahid Allama Iqbal sub division, Samanabad sub division and Mubeen ur Rehamn & Rizwan Ali of Samanabad sub division involved in the violation of safety codes and as punishment job allowance worth 5 lac was deducted from salaries violated line staff. Similarly, departmental action under Pakistan WAPDA E&D rule was taken against the 10 linemen while warning letters were issued to five linemen.

On the special directives of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Bashir Ahmed online portal for the installation of new electricity meters is fully activated and consumers of 8 districts of FESCO region including Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh, Jhang, Mianwali, Khushab, Chiniot, Bhakkar and Sargodha are enjoying this facility and applying online for new electricity connection. FESCO has spent millions of rupees for execution of the state of the art online system in all five operation circles of the FESCO region. Under this system latest computers and hardware systems have been provided in Sub Divisional, Divisional and Circle Offices so that applications for new connections could be completed rapidly. Special training sessions are also arranged for the FESCO staff to complete the different stages of the online portal. The process for applying for a new connection has been made very simple. Applicants have to click the tab on new connection at FESCO website then application form would be opened. After filling the requisite information, applicants would select the required connection category. Then the sub divisional office would receive the application for a new connection and the applicant would receive the application number and receipt at same time. FESCO representative is restricted from collecting the attested copies of the documents from the applicant while surveying the site. Applicant can track his application online at any time while FESCO is also delivering SMS on applicants mobile number after issuance of demand notice.