Farmers won’t get bills for meters installed on Agriculture Feeders-Kangar
Rampura Phul (Bathinda)-Farmers would not be charged any power bills for meters being installed on agriculture feeders across the state. Keeping in view the larger interests of farmers and in a move to mitigate their problems, the Punjab government is committed to provide power free of cost to the agriculture sector. Government will continue with the free power to agriculture sector.
The Minister for Power, Government of Punjab, Gurpreet Singh Kangar said this while addressing media persons during the sangat darshan program held at village Dyalpura Bhaika today. He said that the meters are being installed to assess the transmission and distribution losses of power so that the same can be controlled. These meters have also been installed incompliance with the orders of Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) 2016-17, which will also assess the free units of power given to the agriculture sector. He appealed the farmers to cooperate with the Powercom employees that visit their villages to install meters.
Dispelling the political claims that meters are meant to serve bills to the farmers, Kangar stated that no farmer will face any such kind of problem. He appealed farmers to approach him directly on this issue any time. During sangat darshan, Kangar listened to the problems people and solved them on the spot. He added that in the times to come, he would keep on conducting such sangat darshan programs.
Meanwhile, in the PSPCL west zone, covering districts of Bathinda, Faridkot, Ferozepur and Sri Muktsar Sahib, the work on cent per cent metering of agriculture feeders has been completed. Under the west zone there are 19 agriculture feeders covering 4075 metered connections. These feeders have been installed on 66 KV, 220 KV and 132 KV feeders.
