Individual power connection: New directive puts residents of Noida’s housing complexes in a spot

Residents in housing complexes in Noida are in a fix when they try to seek individual electricity connections. They are being told that they will need written consent of at least 50 per cent of the residents within the housing society before the power distribution company could even consider the request.

“The UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) had issued guidelines last year to allow residents in housing societies to opt for individual connections. The process of getting consent of residents has been started, but there are finer provisions that need to be worked out. It is to be decided who will bear the cost of additional infrastructure in the event that there has been incomplete work done by a builder or inadequate transformer capacity installed,” an official of the discom, Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd (PVVNL) told BusinessLine.