Rs110 crore power bills pending: AAP

Tribune News Service

Ropar, March 18

AAP leaders have alleged that the Punjab State Power Corportion Ltd (PSPCL) was favouring departments and individuals by not recovering electricity bills worth over Rs110 crore from them.

In a press conference, AAP district observer Satvit Walia, district media in-charge Ranjit Singh Patialan, spokesman Balwinder Singh Gill and senior leader Surinder Singh claimed they had a list of more than 500 government and private defaulters under the RTI Act who had not paid power bills.

They alleged the Ropar Municipal Council was on the top of the list of defaulters. “It has not paid power bill of more than Rs2.7 crore,” he said. They alleged that others who had not paid bills included Punjab Alkalies and Chemicals Limited, Nangal, (Rs28.2 lakh); Improvement Trust, Ropar (Rs24.43 lakh); Punjab Roadways (Rs5 lakh); Mini Secretariat (Rs12.8 lakh); SDO, Sirhind Canal, Mankapur (Rs18 lakh); toll plaza (Rs12.11 lakh), ITI, Ropar (Rs5.72 lakh); and CIA staff office (Rs1.89 lakh).

The power bills of the DC office and SSP residence were also pending, they claimed.

PSPCL Superintendent Engineer Satwinder Singh said he had joined recently. He said he would take strict action against the defaulters, if any.