Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government has directed the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) to provide 24X7 electricity to consumers of all categories in cities and villages from mid-December till March, apparently with an eye on the assembly elections that are only less than two months away, people in the know of things revealed.
According to them, to make sure that the corporation has adequate cash flow to purchase additional power from producers, the government is going to make an allocation of more than ₹1600 crore in the supplementary budget as additional government subsidy apart from providing it ₹5,000 crore immediately.
The supplementary budget proposals will be tabled in the state assembly on Thursday.
