Floods Cause Rs460m Losses To Two KP Electricity Companies.

PESHAWAR -- Federal Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir Khan said on Thursday that two power distribuAtion companies in KhyAber Pakhtunkhwa had suffered losses worth Rs460 million due to the recent floods.

At a news conference held in the Wapda House here, he said that Tribal Electric Supply CompaAny and Peshawar Electric Supply Company both exAperienced infrastructural damages totalling about Rs60 million and Rs400 million, respectively.

He said that a senior officer from the federAal government had been sent to Peshawar to proAvide precise estimates of the losses and problems with the power supply.

He stated that nine grid stations were adversely affected and shut down for the safety of people, adding that six of these nine had already been reopened while three had not been started yet.

According to the minAister, 126 feeders were also shut down due to the flooding, and 121 of them were reopened while five remained closed.

He said that while transmission lines and pylons were uprooted in some regions and powAer supply to those areAas remained interrupted, grid stations and feeders were not harmed by the floodwaters.

He declared that the restoration of these supAply lines had already beAgun, and that power would soon be restored to all locations.

He claimed that Bajaur and Swat were the worst damaged districts and the flood-affected Tank district now has access to energy. He claimed that the security situaAtion in Jandola was anAother barrier to the resAtoration of power...

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