Arrears of power consumers waived in Amritsar

Amritsar, October 16

Providing relief to power consumers from poor families after the economic distress due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Deputy CM OP Soni on Saturday announced the government’s move to waive the pending bills of consumers of up to 2 KW load.

Formally making the announcement, he also waived bills of consumers who were present there. He said this pro-poor decision taken by the Cabinet had been implemented at the grassroots level in response to the long-standing demand of the people whose power connections were cut off due to non-payment of bills. He said now the Punjab Government would pay the arrears of such defaulters itself.

He said arrears up to Rs 11,000 crore had been waived across Punjab. Soni said in the city alone, arrears of Rs 50 crore had been waived today, which will benefit more than 45,000 people. — TNS