Power Corporation has announced a campaign for commercial connections. There are a large number of consumers in UP who take domestic connections and use them for commercial purposes, due to which their electricity bills are less and the department incurs losses.
Lucknow: Even if your electricity bill is pending, you will be able to change the category of your connection. Power Corporation has issued orders for this. The electricity department often received complaints that if a consumer has taken a commercial connection and he is closing his business and wants to convert his commercial connection into a domestic connection, then in such a situation the consumer had to first deposit the outstanding amount of the commercial connection. Many times due to lack of funds, the consumer was not able to deposit his old bill. In such a situation, the consumer’s connection could not be converted into a domestic one and his bill kept increasing at the commercial rate.
Fine had to be paid during checking
According to a senior officer of the electricity department, many times when the electricity department officials used to inspect, electricity was used for commercial purposes by taking a domestic connection. In such a situation, during checking, a penalty was imposed on the consumer as per the commercial connection, which put an additional financial burden on the consumers. But now after having this facility, the consumers themselves will be able to easily change the category of the connection.
Special campaign will be run
Power Corporation will run a campaign across the state to change the category of connections of consumers doing commercial activities on domestic connections. There are a large number of consumers in UP who take domestic connections and use them for commercial purposes, due to which their electricity bills are less and the department incurs losses. According to a senior official of the Power Corporation, the average of commercial connections in the entire country is above 15 percent. Whereas, in Uttar Pradesh this average is 10 to 12%. In many districts, the average of commercial connections is even below 10%. In such a situation, the work of changing the category of connections will be done by running a campaign.
