ISLAMABAD: Minister for Power Engineer Khurram Dastgir on Friday said the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) would be installed by end of the current fiscal year and it would help overcome the power losses in the country.
Responding questions at the floor of National Assembly, he said that this system was being used in developed countries and it was yielding positives results both for the organization and consumers.
The minister said that it would also help control electricity theft which was being conducted through ‘Kunda System’ in many areas across the country. The installation of this new metering system will bring a significant change in power division and also provide relief to the consumers in the shape of minimum load-shedding in their respective areas, he added.
He said that as per normal routine, the load-shedding was being observed eight hours particularly in those areas where 60 to 70 percent of bills were not being recovered but now-a-days when the electricity situation was in a better condition, approximately four to six hours load-shedding was being observed there.
He further said that it was policy of the government that there should be short period of load-shedding in those areas where the ratio of losses was low.
