Federal
Minister for Power Division Sardar Awais Ahmed Khan Laghari
has directed that bifurcation of MEPCO, LESCO and PESCO must be decided by the
respective Board of Directors and their concerned CEOs must table the
consolidated proposals for consideration of BODs immediately.
The
Federal Minister passed the direction in a meeting on matters relating to
bifurcation of LESCO, MEPCO and PESCO for better management and developing
consumers oriented approach her today.
The
Minister further directed that BODs of the DISCOs should be involved in all
decisions making and their decisions should be implemented in letter and
spirit. He further directed the Power Division to work out enhancing the
capacity of the existing BODs by inclusion of diverse professionals from
different walks of life.
The
Minister said that BODs should play their vigilant decisive role in the
strategic decision making and should discharge their authorities in true letter
and spirit as per the corporate governance.
The
Federal Minister for Power Division noted that all the DISCOs should adopt
financial autonomy and they should be able to generate its own funds from the
open market instead of from the government.
The
Minister assured that all efforts will be put in place to make the DISCOs
functions free from political interference and directed the DISCOs to take
strict administrative actions against those employees who use political
or other influence.
Sardar
Awais Ahmed Khan Laghari expressed serious concern over the HR department of
DISOCs which have failed in exploiting the existing potential of their HR and
also in strengthening themselves by filling the vacant positions. He directed
that all the vacant positions at officers level be filled at the earliest. The
use of HR and filling of vacant posts is bound to bring in more efficiency in
their operation, added the Minister.
The Federal Minister also directed to
introduce lucrative reward for the top performers at each DISCO level to
encourage them and also promote health completion among the employees based
their performance.
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