Srinagar- Intensifying its crackdown against defaulters, the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) on Thursday recovered a whopping Rs 8 crore pending bills from consumers, besides disconnecting over 1000 electricity connections over non-payment of bills.
The inspection drives have further been intensified across all the 10 districts of Kashmir Valley to curb incidents of hooking and power theft, which are primarily responsible for power outages and distress cuts.
The massive crackdown against rampant power theft and defaulters comes at a time when the Union Territory administration is facing severe criticism over non-availability of electricity supply in nail biting cold.
As many as 566 drives were conducted across all 19 electric divisions and a penalty of Rs.7.84 lakh was imposed on those found hooking wires on bare conductor and bypassing the meters, a KPDCL spokesperson said Thursday. Besides it, over loading also damaged 64 domestic transformers (DTs) across the Valley on Wednesday.
Giving more details about the inspections conducted, he said, that 183 drives were conducted in Circle II Srinagar, 60 in Circle I Srinagar, 123 in Circle Ganderbal, 71 in Circle Pulwama, 35 in Circle Bijbehara and 94 in Circle Sopore.
“1082 domestic, commercial and industrial connections were also disconnected for non-payment of energy dues for more than three months. This includes 371 domestic, 549 commercial and 157 industrial consumers,” he said.
Exhorting consumers to treat DTs as their own assets, the spokesman said 64 DTs were reported damaged across all Electric Divisions. “While those fully damaged are being transported to Central Workshop at Pampore, the rest are being repaired at divisional-level workshops,” he said, adding that KPDCL is committed to replace the damaged transformers within the stipulated timelines.
KPDCL has also urged all domestic, commercial and industrial consumers to pay their long-pending energy dues or face disconnection.
“The Corporation is actively pursuing recovery of pending arrears and Rs.8.00 crore were collected on Wednesday alone from the consumers,” he said, adding that KPDCL will make all out efforts to achieve the target of revenue realization fixed by the Government.
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