Switch over to digital mode of payment of electricity bills and get monetary incentive of ₹20. That’s the scheme the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) has started for rural consumers on the lines of urban areas, an official spokesperson said.
The key objective of this scheme is to encourage rural consumers to make digital payments as part of the ‘Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon Yojana’ under which more than 75 per cent villages of the state are being supplied 24-hour power.
The first digital payment by rural consumers will fetch them ₹20 as incentive and making digital payment of electricity bill up to ₹2,000 an incentive amount of 0.5 per cent of the bill amount (up to a maximum of ₹10) will be given.
