increasing power outages

Toba Tek Singh.Residents of almost all localities in the city and surroundings were facing acute shortage of potable water due to increasing power outages.At here due to countrywide power failure as a result of fault in power generating stations on Thursday,the power supply was restored after 12 hours and after then it was supplied for just six hours in remaining 12 hours.On Friday power supply remained suspended for 10 hours till the filing of this report.This situation created great trouble for the citizens who were forced to bring water on motorcycles,cars and rickshaws in cans from the hand pumps installed on banks of canals in the area as the subsoil water of the city and area was brackish.The TMA officials claimed that tubewells installed on Gogera branch canal at Bhagat which supplied water to the city tanks could not be operated without electricity.Water filtration plants in city are also without water as water pumps are not working due to long-hour power outages.The affluent  citizens however used bottled water for drinking but in mosques there was no water for wuddo specially for Juma prayer when number of prayerers increased.

On the other side there was very low gas pressure in the houses and citizens were forced to purchase meals from hotel or they arranged LPG cylinders or the firewood for cooking meals.

Meanwhile ulemas in their speeches in Juma congregations condemned the government for non supply of gas,power and water in the city.A rally will also be brought out on Saturday Jamia Mosque Rizvia,housing colony by the citizens to p

rotest of suspension of supply of water,gas and electricity which will reach DCO office.