Govt alters rules to give electricity connections without OC

In a major relief to more than five lakh building owners who are struggling to get electricity connections without Occupancy Certificates (OC), the energy department decided to change the rules and give them power connections.

Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar will soon give them electricity connections.

D K Shivakumar, the energy minister in the previous Congress regime, ordered not to give power connections to buildings citing violation of building bylaws and deviation from the sanctioned building plan.

Left in the lurch, property owners had been venting their ire against the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the energy department for the past five years.