Chitral -- A meeting of electricity consumers of Chitral town held at the Moldeh mosque Sunday morning decided to launch protest against not handing over the Chitral town powerhouse to SHYDO as per the urgent demand of all the consumers of the town.

The meeting of consumers fed up with extreme power outages in a water rich area was presided over by Hayatullah Khan. The meeting decided to initially stop payment of the electricity bills until the power house is taken away from WAPDA and handed over to the provincial organisation SHYDO. Speakers said WAPDA does not have mandate nor time to run power houses below 7 megawatt and the Chitral powerhouse is always running at half megawatt so WAPDA has no business here.

They said The Reshun and Drosh powerhouses are also being run by SHYDO and performing well. They said It  would better coordinate with the provincial organisation and be easy to approach them for problem solving.

It was unanimously decided that initially electricity bills would be burnt in public to protest the governments apathy towards their solvable problem and subsequently further measures would be taken which may not augur well for the administration. If it maintains it's indifferent attitude towards the problem of the people. -- CN report, 03 July 2011.

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