Law: Registration, Voluntary Registration and De-Registration Rules, 1996

Section: 26

(a) Regulation of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric Power Act (XL of 1997)--- ----S. 26---Human rights case---Matter of excessive and unannounced load shedding in Province of Sindh and the Provincial capital (i.e. Karachi')---Lack of coordination between private electricity utility company (K-Electric) and relevant government departments---Infrastructure of utility company submerged in rain waters---Whether it was in the public interest for the utility company to have the exclusive right to generate and distribute electricity---Observations and directions recorded by the Supreme Court to resolve the issue of excessive and unannounced load shedding. There seemed to be no coordination between the Power Division (Ministry of Energy), the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) and the National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) in the matter of acting against the private electricity utility company (K-Electric), which was exclusively distributing electricity in the Provincial capital. The Ministry of Energy (Power Division) was required to ensure that there was proper coordination between all the departments and whatever was to be done with regard to the utility company (K-Electric), a coordinated decision should be taken by all the relevant departments, agencies and companies, and the same should be executed by one department, in that, there should be one window operation with the utility company (K-Electric). The utility company (K-Electric) should not be allowed to go about dealing with various departments of the Government or companies or agencies for achieving its objectives. Infrastructure of the utility company (K-Electric) was submerged or inundated in rain waters. Utility company (K-Electric) being a private company, should apply its own resources for ensuring clearing of its sub-stations and other distribution network from the rain waters and in such regard, it could not be allowed to wait for any assistance from the Government. Utility company (K-Electric) had to do its own work and its basic work being supply of electricity to the Provincial capital, such work could not be interrupted for the mere reason that its…

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