{"id":367401,"date":"2020-08-11T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367401"},"modified":"2020-08-11T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:49:43","slug":"pspcl-assesses-power-theft-of-rs-48-47-lakh-by-428-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pspcl-assesses-power-theft-of-rs-48-47-lakh-by-428-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"PSPCL assesses power theft of Rs 48.47 lakh by 428 consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab State Power Corporation Limited has launched a massive campaign against the menace of power theft across the State as per the directions of chairman-cum-managing director A Venu Prasad and Director (Distribution) DIPS Grewal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe border zone of PSPCL has succeeded in detecting various cases of power theft and unauthorized use of electricity,\u201d said PSPCL Chief Engineer, Border Zone (Amritsar), Pardeep Kumar Saini. <\/p>\n<p>Saini said that a massive electricity checking drive was conducted in city, suburban circles of Amritsar, Taran Tarn, and Gurdaspur circles. \u201cPSPCL checked total 7,246 connections out of which 428 cases of theft or unauthorized use of electricity has been detected. An amount of 48.47 lakhs has been charged to the defaulters consumers out of which Rs 10.82 lakhs have already been recovered,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab State Power Corporation Limited has launched a massive campaign against the menace of power theft across the State as per the directions of chairman-cum-managing director A Venu Prasad and Director (Distribution) DIPS Grewal. \u201cThe border zone of PSPCL has succeeded in detecting various cases of power theft and unauthorized use of electricity,\u201d said PSPCL Chief Engineer, Border Zone (Amritsar), Pardeep Kumar Saini. Saini said that a massive electricity checking drive was conducted in city, suburban circles of Amritsar, Taran Tarn, and Gurdaspur circles. \u201cPSPCL checked total 7,246 connections out of which 428 cases of theft or unauthorized use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}