The top most priority of reconstituted Board of Directors (BOD) of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) is to protect the legitimate interests of its consumers and employees said Khurram Mukhtar Chairman BOD, FESCO he was addressing the 113^th meeting of BOD at FESCO Headquarters here today. He said that all segments of society have been given due representation in this board and it would tackle various issues in a holistic manner and it would make best efforts to ensure fair play with all sectors. He said that check and balance would be maintained for the rights and privileges of FESCO consumers employees. Earlier, The Board members unanimously elected the Khurram Mukhtar as Chairman of BOD. They also congratulated him and hoped that he would make best efforts for the progress of this company and welfare of its employees. The election process was completed under the supervision of board member Ijaz Ali Khan Additional Secretary (Admn) Ministry of Water & Power. The members of board also introduced themselves. Later, the BOD approved the accounts for the financial year 2012-13 and sanctioned the constitutions of Audit Committee. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) FESCO Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan thanked the board members and briefed tem about the administrative steps and developments in FESCO. The meeting was also attended by Chairman BOD Khurram Mukhtar, Boar Members CEO FESCO Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan, Noor Ahamad Senior Joint Secretary Minisry for Water & Power, Ijaz Ali Khan Additional Secretary Admn Ministry for Water and Power, Faiq Javed, Ahsan Afzal Khan, Khawaja Shahid Razzaq Sikka, Ch. Javed Kamal, Abdul Hameed Ch and Syed Zia Alamadar.

Faisalabad 27 October 2013: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan has suspended SSO-I and Assistant Engineer Transmission on their alleged negligence. It is reported that during the routine sweeping 11KV line burst resulting in fire and cause instant death of one fitter Mollah Bux and ALM Bilal Hussain and while one Umar Hayat received serious burn injurious.Taking serious view of this incident the CEO, FESCO has immediately ordered the suspension of SSO-I Azmatullah and Assistant Engineer Transmission Talat Bashir. He warned that there was no room for the negligent officials and strict action would be taken against them. He also condoled with the families of deceased employees and assured that full compensation would be doled out to them.

Chief Executive Officer, Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has achieved a prestigious status of first Certified Director of any Distribution Company (DISCO) in Pakistan. According to detail Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan has got this certification from most reliable financial institution Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP). He participated in Director Training Program held from 24 to 28 September at PC Lahore. He successfully completed this program and thus achieved the status of first Certified Director of any DISCO in Pakistan. This certificate is approved by Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and it is recognized as important mile stone towards the Code of Corporate Governance. Zia-ul-Mustafa President ICMAP congratulated him and awarded certificate to Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan.

Faisalabad 30 September 2013: On the special directive Chief Executive Officer FESCO Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO), Rupees.135 were recovered as detection bills from 4 lac 10 thousand consumers. During a special drive launched from September 2013. During this period 3 thousand 5 hundred connections were disconnected. These defaulters had liability of Rs.33.3 million. Rs.31 millions was also recovered from the dead defaulters whose connections were already severed. Similarly Rs.330 millions were also recovered from defaulting government departments. CEO, FESCO Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan has requested consumers to pay their electricity bill in time to avoid disconnection.

Chief Executive Officer, Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has achieved a prestigious status of first Certified Director of any Distribution Company (DISCO) in Pakistan. According to detail Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan has got this certification from most reliable financial institution Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP). He participated in Director Training Program held from 24 to 28 September at PC Lahore. He successfully completed this program and thus achieved the status of first Certified Director of any DISCO in Pakistan. This certificate is approved by Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and it is recognized as important mile stone towards the Code of Corporate Governance. Zia-ul-Mustafa President ICMAP congratulated him and awarded certificate to Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan.

Faisalabad 30 September 2013: On the special directive Chief Executive Officer FESCO Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO), Rupees.135 were recovered as detection bills from 4 lac 10 thousand consumers. During a special drive launched from September 2013. During this period 3 thousand 5 hundred connections were disconnected. These defaulters had liability of Rs.33.3 million. Rs.31 millions was also recovered from the dead defaulters whose connections were already severed. Similarly Rs.330 millions were also recovered from defaulting government departments. CEO, FESCO Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan has requested consumers to pay their electricity bill in time to avoid disconnection.

:Faisalabad 12 September 2013: The overall performance of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) remained on top among all Distribution Companies of Pakistan during financial year of 2012-13. The Combined Efficiency Index (CEI) was evolved to evaluate the performance of various Electricity Distribution Companies and FESCO got 88.26 percent marks in this evaluation.  The line loses of FESCO during this period stood at 10.9% as compared to the overall line loses of 18.9% similarly, the recovery of FESCO was 99.06% as compared to overall recovery of all distribution companies that was 66.56%. The FESCO employees have expressed satisfaction over the performance of FESCO and pledged to work hard under the dynamic leadership of CEO, FESCO Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan to further improve the performance of FESCO. They said that it is the indicative of excellent performance of FESCO among all DISCOs of Pakistan.

Faisalabad The elected government is working on war footing to bridge the huge gap between demand and supply of electricity said Abid Sher Ali State Minister for Water and Power, he was addressing a gathering of local parliamentarian, industrialists, traders and FESCO Officers during his visit to Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Headquarters here today. He said that present government has chalked out a comprehensive strategy to overcome the shortage of electricity, in this connection short, medium and long term projects have been identified including Nandipur, Sat Para, Dasu, Gomal Zam Dam and Dia Mir. He said that no doubt that energy plays a major role for the socio economic development and crisis ridden industrial sector is facing multiple challenges. He said that we could put the country on road to progress and prosperity by ensuring electricity to our industrial sector.  He said that national economy was in bad shape and it could not bear the load of loans. He said that was extending Rs.365 billion subsidy to the power sector. The cost of Neelam Jehlum Project has been increased 10 times. However, we could generate 775Megawatt from Gaddu Power Project within a period of two months only but there is no transmission line to connect it with national grid. He said that it was strange that we could not get rid of load shedding despite of generating additional electricity. Continuing, State Minister said that campaign against power theft has been launched across the country. He termed the electricity theft as a national crime and said that government was encouraging use of energy savers and in this connection 10 million energy saver importing out of these 3 energy savers would be provided to each house.  He said that Ministry has given a proposal to Prime Minister to deduct the electricity charges from various provinces from their allocation of NFC award. Commenting on the local problems Abid Sher Ali said that he is fully aware of the problems confronted by the local industrialists and businessmen. The local businessmen told that Faisalabad is treated indiscriminately and is subjected to severe load shedding as compared to other part of the country.  The Minister immediately constituted a high level committee to minimize the load shedding. The committee will consistent of Haji Akram Ansari MNA, Mian Abdul Manan MNA, Rana Afzal MNA, President FCCI, representatives of Power Looms, Traders wings, Textile Processing Mills Association, DCO and CEO FESCO. The committee will prepare a new schedule of load management within a period of one week. Managing Director PEPCO will supervise the committee.  He also directed to prepare a report for the operation of abundant steam power station. He said that arrangements would make to supply gas to this power station. He ordered to prepare recommendation to increase the quota of electricity for FESCO.  Chief Executive Officer FESCO, Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan told that recent meeting of ECNEC approved construction of two new grid stations in FESCO region and up gradation of four grid station from 66 to 132KV in Faisalabad and Mianwali. 4 transmission lines have also been approved by ECNEC. The meeting was also attended by Haji Akram Ansari MNA, Mian Abdul Manan MNA, Khalida Mansoor MNA, Rana Afzal MNA, Tahir Jamil MPA, MD PEPCO Zargham Khakwani, CEO FESCO Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan, President FCCI Zahid Aslam, Khawaja Shaid Razzaq Sikka, Rizwan Ashraf, Mirza Shafiq, Mehmood Alam Jatt and other.