More than 100 families from Una district, living in villages near the Punjab border, are unable to get electricity connections to run motors for irrigating their agricultural land that lies on the other side of the border in Punjab.
This is because their address proofs, which show them as residents of Himachal Pradesh, are not admissible in Punjab for securing electricity connections for their tube wells. Only bona fide residents of Punjab can apply for power connections.
Jaswinder Singh from Binewal village of Una district, who owns 24 kanals of land in the adjoining Punjab village, said he could not get a power connection for his tube well. Consequently, he was compelled to use a diesel motor, which is expensive to run.
