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| Law makers, Security Forces top defaulters' list | | Outstanding electric tariff | | Bashir Assad
JAMMU, Mar 18: Legislators in Jammu and Kashmir owe Rs. 35, 78, 948 to the Power Development Department which is outstanding against them as power tariff while as the outstanding against Army/Paramilitary forces is of the order of Rs 6518.143 lacs. The law makers and law enforcing agencies in Jammu and Kashmir are the big defaulters while as the industrialists which owe Rs. 39, 96, 24,209 to PDD are the biggest defaulters and if the power tariff is recovered from any one it is the poor consumer who uses the power for domestic purposes.
In a written reply to a question raised in the House by MLA Darhal, Choudhary Zulfkar Ali, the Government has stated that the arrears of Big Business Houses on account of electricity charges amounts to Rs. 39,96,24, 209 while as the power tariff arrears recoverable from Army/Para-military forces as on ending January 2013 in respect of EM&RE Wing Kashmir is Rs. 30,60,19000. However, the Government has deliberately concealed as to how much is outstanding against the Council of Ministers stating that the electricity bills of Council of Ministers are charged to the Estates Department.
About the huge liability against its departments, the Government in its reply to Zulfkar's question states that the liability shown against the Government departments is discharged by the Government as all the power purchase remittance to the supplying agencies are made by the State Government.
It states the funds for electricity charges of various Government departments are borne by the Government; (a) by releasing funds in favour of departments which in turn draw and deposit it back to the Government treasuries. (b) by directly paying to the Power Development Department for cost of power supply and other expenses. As such, the reply sStates, the outstanding power dues against the Government departments is a matter of 'Accounting' Adjustment/Squarring which is under process.
About the targets fixed to recover the said arrears, the Government has stated in the reply that recovery of arrears is a continuous process and is the foremost priority of the department. What is interesting to note is that the Government has stated that there are only 19837 legal power connections of industrial units which include stone crushers and brick kilns. |
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