Managing Director of Central Region Power Distribution Company Manish Singh has appealed the power consumers to pay the outstanding amount before the due date. Power workers and officers are going from door-to-door to recover the outstanding amount.

Instructions have been given to all field officers to recover the arrears and do confiscation proceedings under the Land Revenue Code.

The Central Region Power Distribution Company has also instructed that the recovery of arrears in the cases made by Vigilance should also be expedited. Besides this, revenue should be collected by adding the outstanding amount shown by the audit and other dues to the consumer’s bill. Instructions have been given to check the disconnected connections at night so that the consumers do not use electricity illegally and if a consumer is found doing so, a case should be made against him under Section 138 of the Electricity Act-2003.

The Company has directed the regional officials to make arrangements for opening of cash counters for revenue collection in city divisions and transmission-maintenance divisions on holidays and beyond the scheduled time. As per the decision of the Central Region Power Distribution Company, the cash counters located in all divisional offices of the capital are being opened by the Bhopal region to facilitate consumers on Sundays and holidays.

Similar arrangements have also been made in Gwalior city. The “Operation and Maintenance” staff as well as “Vigilance” has been added to the large-scale power disconnection proceedings against the defaulters by the company. Electricity consumers are requested to show the receipt of the electricity bill payment to the power distribution company personnel when asked for that.