Three companies are facing problems as power theft is increasing there. Even after several efforts, still people are engaged in electricity theft.
In the State, Central and east region, Western area and Eastern areas have come out with astonishing figures that in December 2015 more than 1.5 lakh electricity thieves have been caught and the companies have recovered more than `197.17 crore.
The Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP) along with different plans have taken crores of loans to stop the stealing of electricity in the State and arrange so many things in which electronic meter, Armald cable etc. The main efforts to bring down the loss of electricity line to 15 per cent but it was not achieved. It is known that the line loss is still above than 20 per cent.
In the power theft cases, there are still some consumers who have still not deposited the amount. All three companies have presented 31322 cases in the court. In this the central region company, Eastern Area Company and Western Area Company have presented 5000 cases, 20000 cases and 6000 cases respectively in the court.
In Bhopal’s central region 50534 electricity thieves have been caught and Rs 41crore of revenue was recovered. In Jabalpur’s Eastern Region 67642 illegal connection was caught and Rs 55.49 crore revenue was recovered and in Indore-Ujjain western region 61125 electricity stealing matters was registered and Rs 99 crore revenue was recovered.