SUKKUR: The Sukkur Electric Power Company (Sepco) has suspended four of its sub-divisional officers and taken disciplinary action against as many other officers over their poor performance.
Another officer has been forced to retire early.
According to a statement issued by the power utility, Sepco Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ejaz Channa found performance of the officers poor, and declared: ‘There is no place for lazy and corrupt officers in Sepco; we have adopted a policy of’zero tolerance’againsttheelements damaging the institution’.
The statement said that a policy of ‘No work, No chair’ would now be implemented strictly in the institution.
It said that the four SDOs had been suspended immediately for their poor performance and continuous failure to meet recovery targets.
It quoted the CEO as saying: ‘Sepco is not any individual’s personal fiefdom; the officers who will work hard will be appreciated, and those found negligent will face action’.
The CEO asked all SDOs to raise their recovery target of 90pc within the next 30 days and control line losses.
He said the steps being taken were inevitable to provide relief to the public and to pull the company out of losses.
The four suspended SDOs areGhulam Akbar Dayo (Salehpat), Kanwar Mohammad Rashid (Pannu Agil), Bashir Ahmed Bajkani (Lakhi Ghulam Shah) and Maqsood Ahmed Sheikh (Jinnah Bagh).
SDO Amjad Ali Sheikh of the Sheikh Zaid sub-division, Larkana, has been forced to take early retirement ‘due to his longstanding poor performance and repeated public complaints against him’, the statement said.
The annual increments of Garhi Yasin SDO Zulfiqar Noonari and Shikarpur-II SDO Sohail Malano have been stoppedfor one year and the annual increment of Mehar SDO Asghar Ali Sangi has been stopped for two years.
Meanwhile, SDO (construction), Sukkur sub-division-II, Uzair Khan has been transferred and posted as SDO (Operational) of Sukkur subdivision-I to improve recovery and field operations in the city.