Pradyumna Singh Tomar has informed that ‘Samadhan Yojana’ has been implemented with the objective of providing relief to the consumers in the payment of deferred amount of surcharge and principal dues of the bills of up to August 31, 2020 of domestic electricity consumers with a combined load of up to one kilowatt.
Tomar has urged the consumers to avail the benefits of the scheme by choosing any one option out of the 2 options available in the scheme. Consumers will be able to apply for the benefit of this scheme by December 15, 2021 in the format prescribed by the distribution company.
It is noteworthy that in view of the difficulties being faced by the low income domestic electricity consumers in payment of electricity bills due to the outbreak of Corona epidemic, the recovery of principal arrears and surcharge till 31 August 2020 for the bills of the domestic consumers with a combined load of up to one kilowatt was postponed.
Two options have been provided to the consumers for payment of deferred amount in the Samadhan Yojana. In the first option, on payment of 60 percent of the deferred principal amount in lumpsum, 100 percent of the surcharge and the remaining 40 percent of the principal balance amount will be waived. As a second option, 100 percent of the surcharge will be waived on payment of 75 percent of the deferred principal amount in 6 equal installments and the remaining 25 percent of the principal outstanding amount will be waived.
In both these options, the entire amount of 100 percent surcharge to be waived and 50 percent of the original amount waived will be borne by the concerned power distribution company. The remaining 50 percent of the waived principal amount will be borne by the state government and in lieu of this subsidy will be given to the distribution company.
Energy Minister Tomar has directed the distribution companies to ensure that all the applications received in the scheme till the last date of December 15, should be resolved within 30 days. If the electricity consumer does not submit the application till the last date of the scheme, the bills of the coming month will be issued by including the amount deferred by the distribution company. He has also given instructions to give wide publicity to the scheme.