lahore -
The electricity shortfall is touching 5,000MW with 12 hours loadshedding in urban and rural limits of the country.
The hydel plants, IPPs and thermal power plants are jointly generating 10000MW against the demand of more than 15000MW.
The city is under the grip of massive outages with consecutive power cuts of two to three hours in some areas. The loadshedding has turned the city life into hell in such a hot season. Power shutdown is creating water shortage in some areas.
The people in big cities like Faiselabad, Multan, Gujranwala are also facing severe problems due to 12 hours shutdown. The life in rural areas of Punjab is even more difficult where people are facing around 16-hour power shutdown.
There is a shortage of fuel for power plants and hydel generation is also low which, according to an official, was the major reason behind such shutdown.