"The Government of Pakistan should introduce far reaching,
technical and scientific reforms in Meter Billing to avert overtoiling by
imposing the condition upon Power Information Technology Centers of the Distribution
Companies that no electricity billing to the consumers would be carried out without mobile meter reading and the
electricity bills would not be charged more than one month meter reading. "
" The Electricity Bills would be distributed to Electricity Consumers well in time. The Distribution Companies should get arranged to provide Mobile SIMs to Electricity Consumers for Electricity Mobile Meter Reading well in time, so that, the electricity consumers may able to know correct meter reading".
"The Meter fixed at far height place may be brought at lower level and defective meters be got replaced with digital meters and serious shortage of the Meter Reading Staff be replenished with the high rising of quantum of meter reading work as well as provide security to Meter Reading staff against lawlessness elements since the Meter Readers performs the hazardous nature of work which had caused even tragic deaths due to electrocution occurred at Hafizabad and Wando Sub Division GEPCO Gujranwala in the previous month. The Mobile Meter Reading can be introduced for the major commercial and agriculture as well as industrial consumers which carried out at present being by SDO and XEN by individual reading. "
These demands were raised in a large meeting of the Meter Reading Staff held today on 31st October
2017 at Bakhtiar Labour Hall, Lahore under the aegis of All Pakistan WAPDA Hydro Electric Workers Union
(CBA) which was presided over by Veteran Trade Union Leader Mr. Khurshid Ahmed, General Secretary of the union and
was also addressed by Haji Muhammad
Younis, Sr. Vice President, Rana Abdul Shakoor Regional Chairman, M/s. Muhammad Zubair Malik, Muhammad Shafiq, Ch.
Afzal Tahir, Anwar Javed Wahga, Zahid Ashraf, Khawar Shah, Muhammad Ashraf and
other representatives of the union.
The house by a resolution appealed to the policy makers to introduce scientific and technical reforms in Meter Reading in the modern scientific 21st century technological age instead of introducing the proposed in criminal law to punish the Meter Readers. The union urged to the policy makers to listen the voice of the workers to tackle this issue scientifically instead of accusing the meter readers of over billing in the presence of huge force of management including Sub Divisional Officers, Executive Engineers, Superintending Engineers, Chief Engineers and General Managers in the Distribution Companies.
The house by a resolution appealed to the policy makers to introduce scientific and technical reforms in Meter Reading in the modern scientific 21st century technological age instead of introducing the proposed in criminal law to punish the Meter Readers. The union urged to the policy makers to listen the voice of the workers to tackle this issue scientifically instead of accusing the meter readers of over billing in the presence of huge force of management including Sub Divisional Officers, Executive Engineers, Superintending Engineers, Chief Engineers and General Managers in the Distribution Companies.
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