ISLAMABAD: The Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali has unveiled the power load management plan for this summer and announced that cities are expected to face up to six hours of power load shedding, while rural areas will face up to eight hours of power outages in this summer every day.

While addressing a press conference, the minister said load shedding hours will be longer in the areas with the lower recovery of bills and incidents of electricity theft.

“There will be zero load-shedding in industrial sector except during peak summer months during which industrial load management may be introduced,” said Sher Ali.

The minister claimed that load shedding has been reduced to 50 percent as the power generation has improved in the country as compared to the year 2013.