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PATIALA: Farmers have announced to gherao Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) employees if they come to install smart meters in their villages. In some villages, farmer unions have also got made a similar announcement.
PSPCL has around 95 lakh power consumers and it was planning to install 96,000 meters in urban and rural areas of the state as a pilot project. The officials claimed that the installation work started a few days ago. Given the privatisation of electricity, farmer unions in Punjab allege a deep rooted conspiracy behind installation of digital smart meters.
A video of announcement appealing farmers to protest against installation of meters has been making rounds over social media groups, with message: “The ruling Captain government in Punjab has brought a new rule under which a digital meter will be installed with a chip affixed for prepaid electricity. The electricity in our home will be like a mobile recharge and when the money fr
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LUDHIANA: City businessmen are up in arms against the proposed hike of 8% in the power charges demanded by Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL). According to businessmen, the department in its annual revenue requirement (ARR) petition before the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) has made this demand, which if accepted will ‘destroy’ the industry of Punjab. They are of the view that already the power charges for industry are among the highest in the country and even a hike of 1% will hit the already ailing industry.
Giving more details, Gurmeet Singh Kular, president of Federation of Industrial and Commercial Organisations (FICO) said, “We strongly oppose the proposed hike in power tariff by the PSPCL in its ARR before the PSERC. If the hike is allowed, this will ruin the industrial sector of Punjab, especially when these are passing through the critical recovery phase after the months of lockdown and recession caused due to
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Video grab of farmers cutting the power supply to a Jio tower
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