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Lesco provides

75,000 new connections

LAHORE: Lesco has provided over 75,000 new power connections in Lahore Division during the first six months of the current financial year, to meet the ever-growing demand for electricity in domestic, commercial, industrial and agricultural sectors.

A Lesco source elaborated on Friday that the company has provided 62,497 domestic and 12,080 commercial power connections during the period July-December 1999. It has also energized 669 new industrial units during the said period, while another 66 tubewells were connected with its distribution system.

A total of 37,626 power connections had been given in the corresponding period last year, i.e. July-December 1998 in Lahore Division. The company has thus provided 50 percent more power connections in the first six months of the current fiscal year.ÑAPP