Teams of suburban circle, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), Ludhiana, has collected Rs 52.08 lakh in fines for stealing power, overloading and metre tampering in the last 17 days.
Under the directions of A Venu Prasad, CMD, PSPCL, and DPS Grewal, director distribution, special drives were conducted in divisions of suburban Ludhiana from August 1 to 17.
The teams checked as many as 2,395 connections, of which 60 consumers were found stealing power. Fines amounting to Rs 14.74 lakh was charged from them.
Sarabjit Singh Raju, superintending engineer of suburban circle, Ludhiana, said that apart from these, 167 cases of overloading and meter tampering were found, and fines amounting to Rs 19.18 lakh was imposed for the same.
