Announce four-month moratorium on power bills’ payment: SAD tells Govt
Condemning the Congress-led Punjab Government for issuing inflated power bills with clauses of penalty at a time when the poor as well as the middle class were in dire financial straits due to Covid-19, SAD on Wednesday asked the State Government to announce four-month moratorium on the payment of power bills.
Besides, the Akali Dal demanded that the government should exempt the industrial sector from the fixed charges, while halving the power bills of its consumers for this period.
“It is shocking and most insensitive of the Congress Government to issue power bills to all domestic as well as industrial consumers with deadlines and penalty clauses,” said former minister Daljit Singh Cheema while demanding a four-month moratorium on all power bills including halving of all bills when they are due for collection in a phased manner.
