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From: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050704/haryana.htm
Consumers rush to pay power bills under new scheme
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 3
Long queues have been reported outside cash collection centres of the Haryana power utilities in the rural areas as the scheme of waving arrears of electricity bills gains momentum.
About 1.75 lakh consumers of electricity have paid their current bills amounting to about Rs 6 crore since June 17, when the scheme was introduced.
Encouraged by the response the power utilities have decided to hold cash collection camps in those villages from where such a demand will be received.
An official spokesman said here today that on an average over 4,000 consumers were paying their bills daily in each of the districts of Bhiwani, Rohtak and Jind. He said the scheme had also generated a tremendous response in the districts of Faridabad, Mahendragarh, Sonepat, Kaithal, Mewat and Hansi tehsil of Hisar. More than 20,000 consumers paid their bills in a single day yesterday. More than half of the consumers with tubewell connections in Hansi circle, whose payments were pending, had also started paying their bills.
He said that the benefit of this scheme would also be given to those consumers whose connections were disconnected. They had been given the facility of reconnection for which they would have to apply afresh by July 31.
He said that the consumers had also been given the facility of getting their unauthorised load regularised without paying any penalty. The last date of this scheme had been extended up to July 31.
The scheme was introduced in May and about 50,000 consumers under the domestic, non-domestic and agriculture categories falling within the jurisdiction of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam had got their load of 215 MW regularised without paying any fine.
The nigam had decided to keep its cash collection centres open even on Saturday and Sunday for the payment of electricity bills.
Consumers rush to pay power bills under new scheme
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 3
Long queues have been reported outside cash collection centres of the Haryana power utilities in the rural areas as the scheme of waving arrears of electricity bills gains momentum.
About 1.75 lakh consumers of electricity have paid their current bills amounting to about Rs 6 crore since June 17, when the scheme was introduced.
Encouraged by the response the power utilities have decided to hold cash collection camps in those villages from where such a demand will be received.
An official spokesman said here today that on an average over 4,000 consumers were paying their bills daily in each of the districts of Bhiwani, Rohtak and Jind. He said the scheme had also generated a tremendous response in the districts of Faridabad, Mahendragarh, Sonepat, Kaithal, Mewat and Hansi tehsil of Hisar. More than 20,000 consumers paid their bills in a single day yesterday. More than half of the consumers with tubewell connections in Hansi circle, whose payments were pending, had also started paying their bills.
He said that the benefit of this scheme would also be given to those consumers whose connections were disconnected. They had been given the facility of reconnection for which they would have to apply afresh by July 31.
He said that the consumers had also been given the facility of getting their unauthorised load regularised without paying any penalty. The last date of this scheme had been extended up to July 31.
The scheme was introduced in May and about 50,000 consumers under the domestic, non-domestic and agriculture categories falling within the jurisdiction of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam had got their load of 215 MW regularised without paying any fine.
The nigam had decided to keep its cash collection centres open even on Saturday and Sunday for the payment of electricity bills.