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Lahore: Power Distribution Companies (Discos) will provide one million new connections during the current fiscal year. In addition, 7,500 villages will also be electrified during July-December 2007.

According to details, Discos have been assigned the target to provide one million new connections including 900,000 domestic, 80,000 commercial, 9,750 industrial, 10,000 tube-well and 250 other connections during the fiscal year 2007-08.

In pursuance of the target, as many as 183,975 connections have already been made during first two months of the current fiscal. The connections, provided in July-August 2007, included 166,167 domestic, 14,522 commercial, 1,636 industrial, 1,630 tube-well and 20 other connections.

Maximum number of connections, ie. 54,104 has been provided by Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) followed by Fesco with 33,413, Lesco with 29,356, Iesco with 19,827, Pesco with 18,380, GEPCO with 18,012, Hesco with 7,958, Qesco with 2,904 and Tesco with 21 connections.