CM Manohar Lal Khattar’s ancestral village owes Rs 17.97crore in electricity dues.He aims to improve electricity supply and bill collection in villages, his own ancestral village has not paid electricity bills for last 20 years.
Village Nindana in Rohtak district has electricity dues of Rs 17.97 crore till December 31.
As all ll kind of schemes have failed to impress locals in Nindana, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) is mulling to introduce another carrot-and-stick scheme to recover dues of Rs 17.97 crore.
“This is not the one village, there are three villages in Mehem sub-division of the Rohtak district where electricity dues run into crores of rupees. Highest default amount for electricity arrears has been identified in the Titoli village, where residents owe the electricity firm Rs 34 crore. Next is Madina village, where arrears are Rs 20 crore and the Nindana village is the third on the list,” said Sukhbir Singh, executive engineer in Rohtak sub-division number 1 of the UHBVN.
According to petitions filed before Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission for revision of arrears in 2017-18, the UHBVN had projected a revenue gap of Rs 3,898 crore. The gap is due to non-payment of electricity dues by consumers in the current and last financial year, besides widespread theft of electricity.
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