Farmers remove pre-paid electric meters, hand these to officials

The local district units of the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha and that of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), Punjab, removed the pre-paid electricity meters installed with the powercom meters and handed over these to officials of the powercom at subdivisions across the district on Wednesday.

Satnam Singh Manochahal and Harijinder Singh Shakri, district president and district general secretary of the KMSC, respectively, said here today that in the district a total number of 10,000 pre-paid electric meters installed with the old ones would be removed and handed over the powercom officials at the sub-division.

Harjinder Singh Shakri, a farm leader, said that under his leadership more than 400 pre-paid meters had been removed from the meters of the consumers and were given to the officials of subdivision at Sarhali and Naushehra Pannuan today. At other places women leaders of the organisation Ranjit Kaur Kalha, Davinder Kaur Piddi and Upjit Kaur led the movement.

Manochahal said that according to an estimate, the organisation would remove about 10,000 pre-paid meters in the district and hand these over to the authorities concerned. The leaders said the Union and the state governments were trying to hand over the distribution system of electricity to corporate sector, but this will not be allowed to succeed.

The leaders have demanded the repealing of the Electricity Amendment Bill-2025.