In view of large number of requests received from the consumers, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam has decided to give one more chance to all such horticulture category consumers who are actually using electricity for agriculture purpose to convert the category from horticulture to agriculture power supply.
A spokesman of the Nigam said here on Thursday that the facility would not be provided to the defaulters. The conversion from horticulture to agriculture shall be done by converting the existing system into high-tension configuration by installing distribution transformer right at the bore of the consumer or nearby by extending the 11 KV line upto that point.
The willing consumer will be required to deposit Rs 20,000 as consent money and Rs 7,000 per span on the existing HT/LT line and also for additional HT line, if any to be erected.
He said that the superintending engineers will personally verify the site and register their comments on the case file that the supply is actually being used by the consumer for agriculture purpose only. The agriculture tariff in all such cases shall be levied with effect from the date the consumer completes all the required formalities, he added.