Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO). (

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: مشارکتِ فراہمِ برقی پشاور ), is a state-owned public utility under the administrative control of the Government of Pakistan, formerly a part of the Water & Power Development Authority's Power Wing and headquartered in Peshawar. PESCO is responsible for the distribution of electricity to over 4.4 million consumers of all civil districts of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

History

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(WAPDA) was created in 1958 through WAPDA Act, 1958. Prior to this, the electricity supply service in

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was undertaken by different agencies, both in public and private sectors, in different areas. The local areas electricity distribution service was being performed by various Regions of WAPDA. Then the Area Electricity Board (AEB) Peshawar, on the eight AEBs in Pakistan, was established under the scheme of Area Electricity Boards in 1982, in order to provide more autonomy and representation to

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, and other interest groups in functions of the AEBs. Peshawar Area Electricity Board was reorganized into one such corporatized entity under the name of Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) with effect from 22 March 1998, after the disbundling of the Water And Power Development Authority.

Directorates

Each Directorate is headed by an officer of BPS 20 cadre usually a Chief Engineer or Director General. Admin & Services Audit Division Commercial Department Finance Department Grid-station Operation Human Resources Information Technology (IT) Directorate Legal & Labour MIS Directorate Material Management Operations Division Planning & Engineering Division Project Management Unit Project Construction Directorate Of Public Relations Technical Directorate

Jurisdictions

The jurisdiction of PESCO extends to the whole of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province except for the tribal areas and is divided into (09) circles namely: * Bannu circle. * DI Khan circle. * Khyber circle. * Mardan circle. * Peshawar circle. * Swabi circle. * Swat circle. * Hazara-1 circle. * Hazara-2 circle.

References

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History

Directorates

Jurisdictions

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