LAHORE-The traders and shopkeepers stuck to their stance of discarding timing plans, while, the industrialists also continued to ignore the staggering holidays plan on the sixth day of electricity conservation plan. Whereas, the PEPCO management, misleading the Ministry, kept on giving a skewed picture of the activity to it, The Nation learnt on Friday. The Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) sources said that great strides had been made towards sending letters to the Minster for Water and Power besides conducting scores of useless meetings regarding the implementation of the Federal Cabinet's seven point agenda for energy conservation during the three months of June to August. 'Actually, reduction in demand by about 100 mw could not be evident in the system for June in comparison to earlier days', they said. The sources said that that one should not get astonished of the fact regarding the PEPCO officials practice of playing with the figures and data. They said that the officials right from the meter-reader to the top level were habitual in data fabrication. 'Nobody believes the WAPDA figures that's why we could not see the consensus for Kalabagh Dam, putting the very survival of the country at stake', the sources said. The sources said that staggering of industrial holidays was never been in motion, however, the PEPCO management had been telling the Ministry of getting about 150 mw as of today, hoping that the full potential of this measure could fetch the company about 300mw. We cannot afford to close down our business on Friday as the other towns traders and businessmen plan to shop for the whole week, the shopkeepers said, adding that they could not comply with the govt's decision about change in the weekly off day and early closure of shops in night. The Federal govt apart of other power conservation steps had decided to change the weekly off day of markets from Sunday to Friday, asking the traders to follow the new instructions from June 1. The shopkeepers, on the other hand, stayed with a harsh stance at the sixth day of the plan where 100 per cent shops remained open. They were of the view that their working timings needed to be reviewed in a meaningful manner so that their interests could also be safeguarded. They said that they would resist any move aimed at adversely affecting their business. They were firm in their resolve with regard to resisting any govt scheme to launch any drastic action against them. The shopkeepers said that the govt did not take them into confidence over the issues of loadshedding as they held negotiations with the leading businessmen and chambers of commerce and industry, which were also neglecting the govt demand. 'Neither would we shut our shops down on Friday nor we are ready to close down our business before 9 pm', they said. They said that such steps would increase unemployment and closure of business in the country. They said that if the govt wanted to shut down the shops and commercial plazas then the decision should be implemented on every category. However, the PEPCO spokesman said, 'it was extremely wrong in giving the sweeping statement that shops were not closing at 9pm and that the City District Govts stayed at a distance for shutting down hoardings,  billboards and streetlights and that people were not cooperating'. The spokesman further said that conservation activity was highly successful and would attain more success in the coming days, specially because the power customers were extremely keen and supportive of the conservation steps.