Notices for recovery of ‘advance bills’: Traders paste memo outside PSERC chairperson’s office

Protesting against the notices being served by Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) for recovery of 45 days’ advance consumption deposit (ACD), a delegation of Janta Nagar Small Scale Manufacturers Association (JNSSMA) went to meet Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) chairperson Viswajeet Khanna in Chandigarh on Thursday, and on finding him unavailable, pasted the memorandum on the office wall.

The industrialists threatened to raise an agitation, if their demands were not fulfilled within seven days. The delegation, led by JNSSMA president, Jaswinder Thukral, said, “People chose the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) hoping that it will change things for the better and bring some relief to the industry in this hour of crisis, but the inexperienced government was adding to industrialists’ woes by demanding advance bills for 45 days.”

“The bills are being generated keeping in mind the units’ average consumption. We have been told that our power connections will be snapped if we fail to pay advance bills.”