Lucknow, 23 November (HS). The Consumer Council expressed displeasure over farmers not being able to avail the benefits of the free electricity scheme and the transformer being charged in the farmers’ estimate even on cable connection and discussed it with the Managing Director and Director Commercial of the Power Corporation. The Consumer Council expressed hope that the farmers will get rid of imaginary dues and will be able to get the benefit of the free electricity scheme.
As a test case, the Consumer Council placed before the Power Corporation management, as a test case, the estimate form for a 10 KVA transformer on a 40 meter cable connection of three horse power in Pratapgarh along with the form for hypothetical dues in Sirsaganj. The Consumer Council said that when the farmers are seeking connection through the portal in the distribution sections to get the connection of a new private tube well, then they are being given the estimate of the distribution transformer on the cable connection even within a radius of 40 meters, while the electricity There is a clear provision in the Cast Data Book prepared by the Regulatory Commission that it will be mandatory to provide cable connection within 40 meters. On these two serious matters, today Chairman of Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Consumer Council and member of the State Advisory Committee, Awadhesh Kumar Verma, met Power Corporation’s Managing Director Pankaj Kumar, Director Commercial Nidhi Narang and Director Distribution GD Dwivedi at Shakti Bhawan and Told that in many districts of Uttar Pradesh, farmers are not being given justice at the local level on two serious cases.
Consumer Council Chairman gave as a test case to the MD and Director Commercial of the Power Corporation a copy of the correspondence done at the local level on imaginary dues of farmers in Sirsaganj and also on a private tube well connection of three horse power in Pratapgarh of 10 KVA. Introduced the issue of charging in transformer estimate. The council said that such cases are coming up in many districts across the state, this was raised by the consumers in the webinar of the Consumer Council.
Seeing the seriousness of the matter, Power Corporation’s Managing Director Pankaj Kumar and Director Commercial Shrinidhi Kumar Narang assured the Consumer Council Chairman that the entire matter will be investigated seriously and in future such problems will not arise with any farmer in the entire state. If necessary, an appropriate decision will be taken. So that this type of problem does not arise again.
