The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) Board authorized the release of Rs. 8 billion for the smart electric meter installation project across the provincial capital on Thursday.
The project is expected to generate a profit of Rs. 4.99 billion in the next five years, in addition to preventing electricity theft and monitoring line losses.
LESCO will bear the expenses of the entire project according to reports. In documents issued along with the announcement, it is stated that the newly installed meters will remain in working condition for 20 years hereafter and that changing or tweaking the readings on them will be nearly impossible.
Chief Minister (CM) Punjab, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, led a meeting of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) at his house on Wednesday, where the Lahore Masterplan 2050 was approved and adopted.
He directed that regional, district and municipal plans be established in line with the population percentages in the transport, commerce, and industrial sectors as well.
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Another tactics by so called govt. To earn haram by developing such haram way of earning money from the public. These smart meters could also controlled by their vendor to control meter readings for each installed meter using integrated software kit and that software being controlled at their main IT house.
So, they actually develop it to furtheraing fool to Pakistan’s public for which they should really be ashamed of on this act and it should never be implemented in any where else implement china’s technology of reproduction and recharging of a main electrical unit via sun shine and product electric using coal those are most cheapest way of producing electricity which this govt. would never want to implement for Pakistan, just to earn haram.
Allah saves us from these haram fishes.