KPDCL intensifies disconnection drives

Srinagar, Nov 23: Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) has further intensified its inspection drives across all districts of the Kashmir division to check incidents of hooking and power theft.

An official spokesman in a statement issued here said that 566 drives were conducted across all 19 electric divisions and a penalty of Rs 7.84 lakh was imposed on those found hooking wires on bare conductors and bypassing the meters.

Meanwhile, 64 Domestic Transformers (DTs) were also reported damaged on Wednesday due to overloading.
Giving details about the inspections conducted, a KPDCL spokesman said that 183 drives were conducted in Circle II Srinagar, 60 in Circle I Srinagar, 123 in Circle Ganderbal, 71 in Circle Pulwama, 35 in Circle Bijbehara, and 94 in Circle Sopore.

The spokesman said that 1082 domestic, commercial, and industrial connections were also disconnected for non-payment of energy dues for more than three months.
This includes 371 domestic, 549 commercial, and 157 industrial consumers.

Exhorting consumers to treat DTs as their assets, the KPDCL spokesman said 64 DTs were reported damaged across all electric divisions.
“While those fully damaged are being transported to the central workshop at Pampore, the rest are being repaired at divisional-level workshops,” he said. “The KPDCL is committed to replacing the damaged transformers within the stipulated timelines.”

The KPDCL also urged all domestic, commercial, and industrial consumers to pay their long-pending energy dues or face disconnection.

“The corporation is actively pursuing recovery of pending arrears and Rs 8 crore were collected on Wednesday alone from the consumers,” he said. “The KPDCL will make all-out efforts to achieve the target of revenue realisation fixed by the government.”