Students stage demo against K Electric outside examination centre

Class IX and X students staged a demonstration outside Government Girls Secondary School in Jafar-e-Tayyar Society Malir to protest against the hours-long power outages that have also put the future of grade 9th and 10th students at stake who are appearing in their annual examinations these days.

Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen arranged the protest and the venue where it was held was an examination centre. The students and leaders of MWM were carrying placards and banners and also raised slogans. They demanded Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu notice against K-Electric management.
MWM Karachi chapter’s leaders Ahsan Rizvi and Arif Raza Zaidi spoke to the demonstrators. They lambasted the management of K-Electric who, they said, was solely responsible for the hours-long power outages in all over city and particularly in Malir.
They lamented that students appearing in their annual exams have to sit in the jam-packed rooms in sweltering hot days without electricity. They lashed out at Cluster Head Aqib Salam and IBC GM (Commercial) Saleem Baloch of K-Electric who, they said, were trying to generate revenues by depriving people of electricity. They said that it was the worst sort of corruption on part of K-Electric that it doesn’t generate electricity through furnace oil but depend on cheaper gas from the government company (SSGC) and sell electricity at exorbitant prices earning huge profits also by overbilling and through much higher prices.
They said Saleem Baloch and DGM K-Electric Zakir Memon in a meeting some weeks ago had assured MWM delegation that duration of load-shedding (scheduled outages) would be reduced but despite 90 percent recovery in terms of utility bills, K-Electric failed to ensure smooth power supply to entire Karachi and particularly areas of Malir including Jafar-e-Tayyar Society.
On this occasion, students also talked to media persons and registered their protest. They thanked MWM over their support and solidarity with them. They said that it was very much difficult for them to prepare at home for exams without electricity as they need light to study alongside fan or AC for cold air which is not possible without power supply. They said K-Electric was playing with their future by denying power supply to their areas.