The electricity department has granted yet another extension to its one time scheme (OTS) for power defaulters. Power minister Nilesh Cabral on Monday announced that the scheme would be kept open for another month, till February 28 without the option of six instalments.<\/p>\n
He said they will be allowed to settle their dues within two instalments. \u201cThey have to pay the first instalment while applying and keep the second one ready,\u201d Cabral told reporters.<\/p>\n
Among the defaulters are also those who applied for the scheme and paid the first instalment but haven\u2019t paid any subsequent instalments for whatever reasons he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are giving them another opportunity to pay. We are waiving the delayed payment charges (DPC) but only if they pay 100% in a single instalment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The government has recovered Rs 170 crore out of Rs 413 crore where a total of 2 lakh consumers availed of the scheme and one lakh consumers are yet to avail of it. The department has disconnected the power supply to more than 15,000 consumers, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to recover Rs 240 crore. We will recover it. We want to have a 100% clean slate,\u201d Cabral added.<\/p>\n
The department is working on changing the billing to such defaulters where the due date will no more be mentioned. \u201cFrom now onwards, the defaulter consumers will not have a due date. Their bill will be raised and they will have to pay immediately or else face disconnection,\u201d the power minister said.<\/p>\n
In some instances, a father has passed away, the children have not settled the pending bills but continue to stay in the house, he said.<\/p>\n
Cabral said the department will also give Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) an opportunity to settle pending dues. \u201cIDC hasn\u2019t paid government dues but has auctioned it to someone else. We will give IDC an opportunity to pay the department otherwise we will disconnect power supply to the present people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In a few other cases banks have seized properties and auctioned them.<\/p>\n
To Sudin Dhavalikar\u2019s jibe that the OTS is injustice to those who have been regularly paying bills, Cabral said it is people\u2019s money that has to be recovered which the government needs to procure power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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