The State has a total of 26,244 industrial consumers of electricity and, of them, 10,289 consumers owe power tariff of Rs 735.75 crores to the four distribution companies, Cesu, Nesco, Wesco and Southco. Energy Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallick informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of Congress MlA Tara Prasad Bahinipati on Friday.
The Minister informed that pending dues are being collected by service disconnected notices as per the OERC guidelines. As of now, cases of 289 industrial units are sub-judice in various courts. While 4,349 industrial consumers owe Rs 53.51 crore to the Cesu, 2,131 consumers owe 340.87 crore to Nesco, 1,929 owe Rs 329 crore to Wesco and 1860 consumers owe Rs 12.40 crore to Southco.