KESC Official on Facebook

[Ahmed Nisar]

KESC Official on Facebook



The Citizens of Karachi should be thankful to Allah that even if KESC is not doing what it is mandated to do - provide electricity to them on a 24/7 basis at a constant pressure of 220 volts, it is at least trying to provide them some COMIC RELIEF with its page on Facebook:



www.facebook.com/pages/KESC-Official/171879877110#!/pages/KESC-Official/171879877110?v=wall


The trouble with comedy is that it is entirely dependent on the sense of humour of the audience. Sadly, I haven't come across anyone whom KESC has caused to smile in appreciation or gratitude.


It is possible KESC may be taking sneers to be smiles.


Some of the jokes found on the KESC WALL on Facebook:


KESC has 3,628 fans.

This number may increase by the time you see this topic,because KESC is putting across that it is an organization famously popular with and very dear to the Citizens of Karachi.


There are comments on that Facebook Wall purportedly by the Citizens of Karachi expressing thankfulness to KESC


There are comments on that Wall asking others to be appreciative of KESC, only Allah knows for what. I don't.


There is also something else about this Facebook KESC page. The damned thing is dependent on a little gadget known as a computer, without which AND a live Internet connection, no one can reach it.


The rub is that the majority of computers in Karachi work on mains electricity, which as we all experience daily, KESC DOES NOT SUPPLY, despite its contractual obligation to to do so on a 24/7 basis at a constant voltage of 220.


There is already a topic on this board pointing out street lights blazing brightly in bright daylight. I happened to talk to a KESC-Official I care not to name, at a grid station about this wastage of electricity in these days when KESC's Response Centre (118) will always tell you that the electricity generating capacity is less than the electricity demand, therefore YOU HAVE TO REMAIN WITHOUT ELECTRICITY.


KESC-Official nonchalantly, or should I say, brazenly, told me that humans work in KESC and someone somewhere must have forgotten to turn off those street lights.


WOW!

Does any of you expect monkeys to be manning KESC installations?


No?


I told KESC-Official that it does not require any rocket science to install photo-sensors at the concerned supply points, which would automatically turn the street lights on and off according to the configured quantum of ambient light (sunlight) available.


KESC-Official told me that I was talking about something used only in advanced countries, we poor Pakistanis could not afford such things.

Rib-tickler?


Please comment.





Ahmad

[admin]

This happened about three months ago. I had rung up 118 to make a complaint about a power outage immediately following the normalization of my area after load-shedding.


The person attending the call told me that a feeder had tripped, that such trippings were the fault of the consumers. They leave their lights fans and other appliances on when load is shed, so when the area is normalized there is great immediate demand and the feeders trip.


Great logic, isn't it?

[nauman]

You will encounter plenty of such logic with the KESC

[rabeea]

What you mates are saying here, this doesn't happen anywhere else in the world.


In civilized countries where people, communities and corporations abide by the law, it is usual for utilities to compensate their customers for losses incurred as well losses of opportunity arising from unannounced and unscheduled suspension of supply in services by the utility companies.


My father migrated to Australia in 1988. My mother and we children joined him in 1990. Since 1999 we have been living in Brisbane.


I cannot recall a single unannounced power outage.

My grandparents and all of our extended family is in Pakistan. We travel to Pakistan frequently. I have been in Karachi for over a month now.


I am shocked at what the KESC is doing to this city. Honestly, it looks and feels more like a calculated effort to sabotage this city's economy than anything else.

[rabeea]

Exactly on the stroke of midnight between 16th and 17th Marc h 2010 there was a power outage, which lasted exactly one hour to the second.


Was this a very precise "fault" or just another hour of unscheduled and unannounced load shedding?

[rabeea]

There has been another power outage here, for 13 minutes and some seconds.



The Uncle I am staying with here was telling us all that when they were living in Lahore many years ago there was case where a gang of thieves run by some employees of the power company was caught by the Lahore
Police. Their MO was to switch of the power of their target locality, be done with their "business" and switch the power back on.


Is history repeating itself in Karachi?


Does the police and the CPLC keeps tabs on the incidence of crime in localities where there are power outages in the middle of the night?


They should be doing this exercise.

[rabeea]

The KESC is spending HUGE sums of money on an insulting and counter-productive advertising campaign. They should they should be spending this money on overhauling their distribution network.


Ever since I have logged on to this site, whenever I open the KESC board, I see a KESC advertising banner at the top.


It makes my blood boil.

[rabeea]

www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2010/03/100316_energy_episode3_mah.shtml


An apologist of the KESC has made a video and posted it at BBC Urdu service. The effort is rank amateurish. Please click the link and have a look. They are trying to tell us that all this load shedding is due to load shedding. Bull crap.




I have been looking at the electricity scene in Karachi and have come to learn a thing or two about what is going on.

Big business usually defaults in the payment of power bills, BUT hardly any electricity dependent industry is stealing power. Defaults on the part of big business occur with the collusion of the KESC finance people. ... See More

The power thieves in Karachi are mostly economically deprived people who use "Kunda" for power theft. The power they steal does not amount to much.

There are three reasons why there is load-shedding in Karachi.

1. The managements at KESC failed to make correct demand projections for the long-term. In addition to this myopia on their part, the idiotic economic policies of Musharraf and his sidekick, the clerk from some bank in the USA Shoukat Aziz, ballooned consumer banking, resulting in massive purchase of luxury goods such as air conditioner, washing machines etc. This caused a nasty spike in power demand .

2. KESC does not plough back profits into their business in the required quantum.

3. KESC's income is misappropriated in a HUGE way. The organization is over-staffed like hell. Malik Shahid Hamid, one of the honest bureaucrats who was the MD of the KESC in the late 1990s tried to remedy this and was gunned down outside his home in DHA. There are still thousands of persons of KESC's muster-roll who pay a part of their salaries to other employees to sign the attendances for them, do not come to the office at all, and still salaries are paid to them regularly.

[rabeea]

Mar 15, 2010 22:39:52 GMT Ahmed Nisar said:

KESC Official on Facebook



The Citizens of Karachi should be thankful to Allah that even if KESC is not doing what it is mandated to do - provide electricity to them on a 24/7 basis at a constant pressure of 220 volts, it is at least trying to provide them some COMIC RELIEF with its page on Facebook:



www.facebook.com/pages/KESC-Official/171879877110#!/pages/KESC-Official/171879877110?v=wall


The trouble with comedy is that it is entirely dependent on the sense of humour of the audience. Sadly, I haven't come across anyone whom KESC has caused to smile in appreciation or gratitude.


It is possible KESC may be taking sneers to be smiles.


Some of the jokes found on the KESC WALL on Facebook:


KESC has 3,628 fans.

This number may increase by the time you see this topic,because KESC is putting across that it is an organization famously popular with and very dear to the Citizens of Karachi.


There are comments on that Facebook Wall purportedly by the Citizens of Karachi expressing thankfulness to KESC


There are comments on that Wall asking others to be appreciative of KESC, only Allah knows for what. I don't.


There is also something else about this Facebook KESC page. The damned thing is dependent on a little gadget known as a computer, without which AND a live Internet connection, no one can reach it.


The rub is that the majority of computers in Karachi work on mains electricity, which as we all experience daily, KESC DOES NOT SUPPLY, despite its contractual obligation to to do so on a 24/7 basis at a constant voltage of 220.


There is already a topic on this board pointing out street lights blazing brightly in bright daylight. I happened to talk to a KESC-Official I care not to name, at a grid station about this wastage of electricity in these days when KESC's Response Centre (118) will always tell you that the electricity generating capacity is less than the electricity demand, therefore YOU HAVE TO REMAIN WITHOUT ELECTRICITY.


KESC-Official nonchalantly, or should I say, brazenly, told me that humans work in KESC and someone somewhere must have forgotten to turn off those street lights.


WOW!

Does any of you expect monkeys to be manning KESC installations?


No?


I told KESC-Official that it does not require any rocket science to install photo-sensors at the concerned supply points, which would automatically turn the street lights on and off according to the configured quantum of ambient light (sunlight) available.


KESC-Official told me that I was talking about something used only in advanced countries, we poor Pakistanis could not afford such things.

Rib-tickler?


Please comment.





Ahmad

www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/KESC-Official/171879877110?v=wall



KESC-Official's page on Facebook

[admin]

They are trying to mislead and confuse the public everywhere

[Laal Dopatta]

Whoever this official is, he must have tons of gall.

[mchoudhary]

Even the title of that page is instructive: OFFICIAL


It could have been simply KESC, and a bit modesty.


Why be so full of oneself?


OFFICIAL

[ainee]

That page is so laughable. Real rib-tickler