Chandigarh, December 24
The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) has started a scheme to provide incentives to rural consumers on the digital payment of their power bills.
An official spokesperson of the UHBVN said under the ‘Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon’ scheme, more than 75% villages were being provided 24-hour power supply. He said the main objective of this scheme was to encourage rural consumers to make digital payments. Consumers can pay power bills digitally through their debit and credit card, Internet and mobile banking or applications like Paytm and Amazon, etc.
The spokesperson further said for the first time digital payment of power bills by rural consumers, Rs 20 would be given as incentive. After this, on making a digital payment of power bill up to Rs 2,000, an incentive amount of.5% of the bill amount (up to a maximum of Rs 10) will be given.
Besides, an incentive of Rs 50 will be given for the digital payment of six consecutive bills by the consumer. — TNS
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