- Other villages are facing acute power crisis
- Power Corporation using many tactics to collect revenue but fails on all fronts
Richeek Mishra
Agra. The team of secretaries might be satisfied with the development work carried out in the reviewed Ambedkar villages but the situation of power supply in rural areas and the collection of revenue is far from hunky dory. Principal Secretary JN Chamber and his team of bureaucrats are probably not aware of the skeletons in the wardrobe of Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited (DVVNL).
Considering the state government's special attention towards Ambedkar villages DVVNL officials may have worked properly but other villages and towns are not getting proper power supply. In a bid to save the crop of potato, DVVNL, few weeks back, took a shocking step disconnecting the power supply of around 100 villages to supply power to about 8000 tubewells.
In many villages transformers are not functioning, streetlights are defunct, while secretaries' team is satisfied with the development work carried out by Power Corporation. The rural consumers are facing acute problem of regular power cuts. Around 48068 rural power consumers are getting supply from the corporation while DVVNL is unable to collect pending electricity bills from them. About 6638 consumers of domestic, commercial and high voltage connections are evading deposition of electricity bills every month.
According to the DVVNL officials, they are regularly organising camps to collect pending dues but they fail. Power Corporation's One Time Settlement (OTS) scheme also fails to evoke good response. DVVNL Managing Director has assured to collect Rs 157 crore from this scheme within two months. Corporation's chief engineer and managing director have also assured to collect Rs 20 crore under OTS. However, up to January 25, Agra Discom was able to collect approximately Rs 2 crore.
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