To educate its offline consumers about the use of digital modes and its benefits, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has organised digital awareness camps at three prime locations in Patiala city.

Properly trained and expert teams visited different PSPCL cash counters located near Bus Stand, Model Town and Mahindra College in Patiala city, informed PSPCL chairman-cum-managing director Baldev Singh Sran on Sunday.

Sran said that the teams interacted with large number of consumers, who were standing in queues at the cash counters or visited PSPCL cash counters to deposit their electricity bills, and guided and motivated them about availability of various digital platforms.

Teams motivated the consumers to pay their bills digitally, and save their precious time, energy and contribute saved time for the progress of the society, he said.

Sran added that it was a matter of pride for the entire State as Punjab is on the top position under digital transactions category in the entire nation since November 2018. PSPCL is collecting more than 659 percent amount digitally, said Sran while appealing to the entire citizens of the State to use cost free digital modes for bill payments.

“With the able leadership and continued support of the Cief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, PSPCL would definitely keep on serving the society with more passion and energy in future too and PSPCL will come out with further new products of bill payments like UPI, Bharat QR etc,” assured Sran.

Sran said that for the convenience and awareness of farmers, PSPCL has organised various camps in different villages or areas of Punjab for AP (agriculture pumpsets) load regularization in recent past.

He said that 2251 AP consumers were upgraded with a load of 6,984 BHP in all operations zones in the State. PSPCL has recovered Rs 345.76 lakhs on account of service connection charges for extension of load from the consumers, he said.