Category: Power

The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) on Thursday suspended a junior engineer (JE) following an inquiry committee report finding his role dubious in the installation of an illegal transformer. The incident pertains to installation of a transformer at the Mukhija colony in the Model Town area to provide power supply to a mobile phone […]

Castigating the ruling Congress for this ‘anti-people’ decision, former minister and senior vice-president of SAD, Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal, said since the party came to power in the state in 2017, it had effected power hike for more than a dozen times. The total impact of the power hike is enormous as it has been […]

Workers of the mass organisations on Wednesday staged a protest against the state government’s decision to impose power tariff hike from June 1. Workers of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Punjab, blocked the traffic on Tarn Taran-Dialpura road and burnt an effigy of the state government. Sawinder Singh Chulata, state leader of the organisation, while […]

Power consumers are irked over the state government, led by Capt Amarinder Singh, for increasing the power tariff from June 1. All categories of consumers are annoyed at the government for regular annual increase of the tariff which they fear will only add to inflation and hit the middle icome group families. Surjit Singh, a […]

In a relief to more than 65 power consumers in the state, the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has ruled that there will be no change in power tariff structure. The decision announced on Tuesday came on an annual revenue receipt application by power distribution companies. On March 7, the HERC reserved the decision due […]

Dehradun: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pilgrimage to Badrinath and Kedarnath, the Uttarakhand Government has decided to provide uninterrupted power supply to all the four highly revered Chardham shrines —Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri. Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited will install 33 KV sub-stations, each costing Rs 10 crore, near all the shrines to strengthen the […]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today questioned Punjab and Haryana governments on free or subsidised power on agricultural pump sets to rich farmers during the hearing of two petitions filed in public interest on the issue. “Why free or subsidised power be given on agricultural pump sets to rich farmers?” Chief Justice Krishna Murari […]

Chief Vigilance Officer, NHPC, Dr Ved Prakash has ordered a vigilance probe into the alleged turbine oil scam unearthed in the Parbati power project-III last month. The Deputy Chief Vigilance Officer has been asked to investigate the matter and submit a report within 15 days. Sources said the Chief Managing Director, NHPC, Balraj Joshi had […]

A two-day training programme on the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017, being organised by Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) and the Institution of Engineers, was inaugurated at the Institution of Engineers, Dugri Road, here. The workshop is being organised as part of a PEDA initiative to promote awareness on the code. The programme was […]

Stakeholders in the tourism sector have demanded the continuation of subsidised electricity for the hotels and lodges which was announced by the previous PDP-BJP government in its budget in 2018. Then Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu had declaring all hotels and lodges as industrial units and provided incentives, including subsidised electricity, with effect from April 2018. […]

The electricity subdivision No. 4 under the UT Electricity Department has been at its wit’s end lately while trying to deal with a man, who is reportedly from Nepal, for the past over one year now. The man has been accused of breaking off 11 KV GO switches at regular intervals at Dhanas and the […]

After a delay of more than six months, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) has started the process of replacing the existing traditional meters with smart meters. As of now, it has replaced around 4,000 meters in the city and fixed a target to replace 1.4 lakh meters, including 1.2 lakh meters in five […]