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GUWAHATI: Barpeta is reeling under a severe power crunch, affecting people working from home and also those in home isolation because of Covid-19. Not to mention the children taking online classes.
This, in addition to the rising mercury.
Villages of Nalbari and Barpeta districts said frequent power cuts, sometimes for around five hours at a stretch, in the past two days are making life, already compounded by the pandemic, miserable.
Frequent power cuts are being reported in the villages under Sorbhog and Kalgachia revenue circles, leaving people working from home and those under home isolation struggling. The unscheduled load shedding lasts up to 2-3 hours in the evening. At night, it s one hour on and the next off. We are really at the end of our tether as it has been incredibly hot since the end of June, said Rafiqul Islam of Ghugubari village in Barpeta under Sorbhog revenue circle.
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APDCL yet to get Rs 73 crore from various departments of Assam government
It’s strange but true; and official too! Various departments of the Assam government are yet to clear the dues of electricity bills amounting to Rs 73 crore to the APDCL
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GUWAHATI: It s strange but true; and official too! Various departments of the Assam government are yet to clear the dues of electricity bills amounting to Rs 73 crore to the APDCL (Assam Power Distribution Company Limited). Interestingly enough, this amount includes the outstanding bills of several earlier months also till June 2021. Mentionably, the APDCL is presently on a bill-collection overdrive by imposing fines and cutting power connections of the defaulting individuals and firms. Since June, the power company has been launching a drive against the theft, and unauthorised use of electricity besides the non-payment of electricity bills across the State.
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GUWAHATI: The Assam Power Distribution Corporation Limited (APDCL) has been incurring a loss of around Rs 300 crore per month since 2018 because of non-payment of electricity bills and power theft. Electricity bills worth Rs 2,000 crore in the state has not been paid to the company. Ironically, the state government itself is one of the major defaulters. It owes nearly Rs 95 crore to the power company.
According to the APDCL sources, the public health engineering department (PHED) is the bigest defaulter. It owes Rs 26 crore to APDCL and is followed by the health department (Rs 12 crore), education department (over Rs 7 crore) and home department (over Rs 5 crore). The forest department owes Rs 4.94 crore, public works department Rs 4.29 crore, irrigation department Rs 6.39 crore, veterinary department Rs 2.26 crore, agriculture department Rs 2.35 crore, panchayat & rural development Rs 2.08 crore and judiciary Rs 2.08 crore to the company.