24 utility stores, functions, load shading, transport
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This document provides information about utility stores, load shedding, and transportation in Pakistan. It discusses that utility stores were formed in 1971 by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to provide essential items at lower prices. It aims to act as a price moderator. Load shedding is the deliberate switching off of power supply to parts of the network during shortages. While it prevents blackouts, it has disadvantages like safety issues. Transportation was initially run privately before provinces established government transport services like the National Transport Service in 1945 in Lahore and Government Commercial Transport in 1946 in Hyderabad.
24 utility stores, functions, load shading, transport
- 2. Presentation of Official Statistics Topic: Utility Store, Trance port, Load shedding Name: Irfan Hussain Class: Bs (Statistics) 8th Roll No: 39(Regular)
- 3. Utility Stores • Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan was formed in 1971 • It was created by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. • The organization have seen many ups and downs in its 40 years history.
- 4. Objective • The basic objective of the USC is to provide essential and other items of daily use to the public, specially the poorer segments of the society, at prices comparatively lower than the market. • It is, therefore, required to act as a price moderator and deterrent to profiteering, hoarding and black marketing, thereby to provide economic relief to the public.
- 5. Function • The entire operations of USC are monitored by a Board of Directors which periodically provides policy guidelines. • The Secretary, Industries, Production is Chairman of the Board of Directors. The operational activities of the USC are managed by the Managing Director who is
- 6. • assisted by three Senior and twelve General Managers. • It has presently sixty (60) Regional Offices which are headed by Regional Managers and monitored / supervised by nine Zonal Managers. • In order to exercise better command & control and to conduct stores operations in a disciplined and more organized manner, new Regional Offices have been opened in main cities under the expansion programme.
- 7. Load shading 1. Load shedding is the term used to describe the deliberate switching off of electrical supply to parts of the electricity network, and hence to the customers in those areas. This practice is rare, but is a core part of the emergency management of all electricity networks. 2. When there is a shortfall in the electricity supply, there can be a need to reduce demand very quickly to an acceptable level, or risk the entire electricity network becoming unstable and shutting down completely. This is known as a “cascade” event, and can end in a total or widespread network shutdown affecting very large areas of a country. Some recent examples include the blackouts in northeast America and Canada in 2003 and across Italy in the same year.
- 8. Disadvantage of load shedding • Aug 28, 2012 - Now let us look at other disadvantages created by load shedding. One another major problem in our society created by load shedding is safety • Dec 21, 2008 - Load shedding in Pakistan has become one of the major issues like inflation,unemployment,child labour, suicide bomb-blast, illiteracy and last ... • Electricity Load Shedding in Pakistan continues even in winter 2014 even with .... disadvantages of electricity load shedding or uninterrupted power supply of ...
- 9. ADVANTAGES OF LOAD- • 1. You cannot watch News channels and get a chance to realize that there are people living in the same house as you and things actually happen in their lives too. • 2. You find out that you have friends outside face book and events do happen that are not posted as status updates. • 3. You can THINK! • 4. You realize what a long time one hour is! • 5. You get a feel of how hot it is
- 10. Trance port • Before the year 1945, the road transport in the provinces now constituting PAKISTAN was exclusively run by the private bus operators. As time ran, with the increase in number of vehicles and quantum of traffic multiplying, the Government of PUNJAB decided to organize the transport system on proper footing. In 1945 the Nationalized Transport Service was established in LAHORE to operate buses on city and intercity routes. The Government of Sindh followed the suit as Government Commercial Transport (GCT) was established in 1946 at HYDERABAD. The bus transport services were gradually extended to serve the entire province. In January 1948 National Transport Service was also introduced in N.W.F.P. In 1954, on amendment of motor Vehicle Act, 1939, the Road Transport Boards were formed in PUNJAB, N.W.F.P. and SINDH