Electricity consumers who have outstanding bills against their names and the electricity department is proceeding to initiate action on them can take shelter in the coming National lok Adalat scheduled on November 23.
Such pre litigation cases can be compounded in lok Adalat, reminded the secretary of the Palamau legal Services Authority (PAlSA) KK Jha. The consumer is to get DPS (delayed payment surcharge) relief by way of waiving of the surcharge. The electricity department in such cases will extract energy charge only. Jha said the lok Adalat always views the user’s capability and endeavours to give maximum relief to the poor and the commoner. He said pre litigation matters are reaching his office every day and it will be no wonder if this figure touches the 10,000 mark here. A large number of cases are of the excise department.
There is a basket of relief for defaulter BSNl users too who can get their outstanding telephone bills adjusted comfortably, reminded Jha, saying 16 cases of BSNl have been put on record for National event wherein subsribers are to get relief of more than 25,000 rupees in totality.