Lights out on North Delhi streets over ₹10 crore dues
New Delhi: In what may add to the spiraling crime figures in North Delhi area; around 60,000 street lights will go dark over non-payment of ₹10 crore dues by North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) to Tata Power-DDL (TPDDL).
The utility TPDDL supplies electricity to around 1.42 million consumers in North Delhi, with these payments due for street lights outstanding for the last 15 months. Interestingly, both NDMC and DSIIDC have denied the ownership of these street lights.
Mint reported on 28 January 2013 about city municipal corporations being so strapped for cash that they can’t even pay power distributors for the electricity they consume.
