According to the controller, it took roughly 20 hours to restore the system.In a press release, Nepra said that it had taken serious notice of the incident and constituted an inquiry commission to probe the matter in light of its laws, rules and regulations.The commission conducted the said inquiry and presented a detailed report to the authority on the base of which the authority initiated legal proceedings against the NTDC,”the statement said. It further stated that an explanation was issued to the company on April 1, 2021, followed by a show cause notice on August 25, 2021.
Also, an occasion of hail was also granted to the NTDC on January 12, 2022, still, the NTDC failed to give any satisfactory response and was plant shamefaced of violating the applicable vittles of the grid law.” Thus, the authority has assessed a forfeiture of Rs50 million on the NTDC,”the statement said.The controller also refocused out that it had initiated legal proceedings against the power shops concerned for their” setbacks, scarcities and failure”in relation to the incident. It said this was presently”under process and being dealt independently”.
In January 2021, a major power breakdown had plunged the entire country, including major civic centres similar as Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and Multan, into darkness for over to 22 hours a little before night. At the time, also energy minister Omar Ayub Khan had attributed the breakdown to a specialized fault at the Guddu power station.A month latterly, an independent inquiry commission appointed by Nepra plant serious violations of safety and security protocols and severe scarcities in the country’s power system operations starting from generation installations both in public and private sector to the entire transmission network.The 24- runner inquiry report also observed that “ black launch operations at most of the power shops were missing ornon-functional which should have restored the power force relatively snappily in the country”.
On the other hand, a NTDC inquiry commission in March 2021 linked governance, power problems and poor chain of command for intestine power breakdown, but acquitted its own platoon of any responsibility.In its report, the four- member inquiry commission quoted letters written by some of its members for enhancement of the electricity generation system and its safety protocols and outfit to prove that the NTDC had been pressing the system’s sins.