by Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, NOV 6
Haryana Power Distribution Companies
(Discoms) have decided to release all the 2810 non-domestic and 1730
industrial connections that have been pending for more than three months,
by the end of January 2013.It has also been decided to release all the
pending 16,663 tube well connections, against which complete payment has been
deposited by the prospective consumers, by the end of May 2013 in a
phased manner.
This was stated by the Chairman and Managing
Director, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli
Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), Mr. Devender Singh here today.
He said that during his visits to field and
meetings with industrialists and farmers, it was observed that there was strong
demand to accelerate the pace of release of connections particularly in the
industrial and agriculture sectors. After having deliberations on the issue it
has been decided that all the High Tension (HT) and Low Tension (LT) industrial
connections against the applications pending for more than three months or more
should be released by the end of January, 2013. The number of such applications
for non- domestic and industrial connections is 2810 and 1730 respectively in
the State.
He said that the pending applications included
those applications which are pending for want of availability of capacity
in the transmission and distribution system. In such cases, the utilities have
decided to release all the non- domestic and industrial connections having a
demand of load up to 200 KVA during the lean period up to December, 2012. The
connections against applications of non-domestic category demanding load up to
200 KVA will also be released irrespective of the non-availability of capacity,
being it the lean period. The capacity of the system will, however, be
augmented by April next year so that system constraints are not the hurdles in
maintaining uninterrupted power supply during the season of peak demand.
Separate seniority for such applications will be maintained at sub-divisional
level and put on websites of the Nigams to keep transparency.
He said that the Discoms will take up
the matter with the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam to
strengthen the transmission network so that the new
connections were released expeditiously. A meeting of senior functionaries will
be convened shortly to discuss the issue. He clarified that since construction
of higher capacity substations takes more time it will be preferred to augment
capacity of the existing substations to meet the load demand in order to speed
up release of new connections. A three tier plan including short term, medium
term and long term schemes is being drawn to strengthen the
power transmission and distribution system.
Mr. Devender Singh said that the DHBVN and the
UHBVN have decided to release tube well connections expeditiously
so that the farmers could take maximum benefit by getting the irrigation
facility well in time. The officials in field have been directed to release all
the pending tube well connections immediately for the applications against
which all the complete charges have been deposited by the farmers. Tube well
connections against all such 16,663 applications pending in the State will be
released by the end of May, 2013 to meet their requirement of watering for
paddy.
He said that the Nigams have issued guidelines
for fixing priority for release of connections to the applicants under which
first of all those connections would be released immediately where only the
cable was required without augmentation of transformer. After that the
connections in which erection of one or two poles is required, would be
released.
In the cases where the department had
assigned the responsibility of releasing connections to contractors and the
work was left incomplete, such work of releasing connections would be completed
departmentally by the Nigams. The major material such as transformers,
poles, conductors and cables are being arranged in sufficient quantity to
ensure timely release of connections
Mr Devender Singh said that this work will be
done on war footing under a crash programme and the Nigams have already started
the process of arranging the material required to release the connections.
There would be no shortage of material, including the transformers and meters.
The crash programme would help clear maximum pendency of applications for
industrial and tube well connections.
He said that the officials in the field
have been directed to release all feasible domestic connections also within a
month of submission of application.The Nigams would make adequate arrangement
of electricity also so that the upcoming load requirement is met properly
during the next summer and paddy season.
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