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| PDD 'fleeces' Jammu consumers, fails to pay own bill in Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 28: Even as the Power Development Department is often accused of fleecing the consumers in Jammu, the said department has failed to even clear its own power bills in Kashmir region, especially in the summer capital of Srinagar.
Whereas in Jammu, the PDD immediately snaps connection of the power consumers, whosoever fail to clear the dues in time, such is not the scene in Kashmir.
Official sources said the PDD offices in Srinagar have failed to clear their power bills for months together.
Sources said the PDD offices owe over Rs two million as the bills for the year 2018 have not been cleared as yet.
Sources said the office of the Assistant Executive Engineer for the Receiving Station near the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar has not paid the bills to the tune of over Rs ten lakhs. Similar offices in adjoining Karan Nagar locality owe Rs four lakhs each.
It was reliably learnt that even the office of the Development Commissioner Power has failed to clear the bills for around one year.
Official sources said the PDD was slow in clearing dues from the consumers in Kashmir. "When the PDD has itself not cleared the bills for such a huge amount that too in the summer capital of Srinagar, the collection from domestic connections from across the Kashmir can only be thought about," said one official.
Officials said in the last 30 years of militancy, Kashmir valley has been enjoying undue relaxations. "In the gab of militancy Kashmir has an excuse for everything. One should imagine what would have happened if PDD Jammu or the people of Jammu were the defaulters for the power bills," said one official.
Sources said there were no such defaulters in Jammu as all the concerned are very disciplined.
"People of Jammu have a habit of clearing the dues in time even though the power supply in the city is worse throughout the year," said one official.
But when contacted a PDD official said that such cases keep happening across the state.
"We don't need to clear such dues if any, as the concerned department who allocates funds for us deducts the payments through book adjustment," the official said. |
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