The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam has disconnected supply temporarily or permanently of 2,61,612 non-payers and detected 12,439 cases of power theft up to March 15 during the current fiscal.
Giving details, a spokesman said here on Friday that while intensifying the ongoing campaign of disconnections of the non paying consumers, as many as 53,099 disconnections had been made in operation circle Ambala comprising Ambala and Panchkula districts, 51,388 in Yamuna Nagar, 44,320 in Kurukshetra comprising Kurukshetra and Kaithal districts, 30,862 in Karnal, 28,500 in Panipat, 19,552 in Jind, 15595 in Rohtak, 13,827 in Sonipat and 4,469 in the newly created Jhajjar operation circle.
He said the nigam had to recover Rs 210.40 crore from these non payers out of which Rs 97.84 crore had been recovered. Instructions have been issued to the field offices to ensure that the supply of the non payer is not restored before 24 hours on depositing the payment, strictly as per Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission order. He also said the nigam would disconnect electricity supply of those consumers immediately whose dues had been more.