Under Agriculture Power Tubewells Policy, power connections against all applications registered prior to year 2007 will be released within this month in Punjab.
Addressing the villagers here, Punjab Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal announced that besides all other applicants registered afresh will be allotted tube well connections during the next six months as the State had become power surplus by with the commissioning of new power plants.
Badal said the SAD-BJP Government had cleared the pendency of about 75,000 tubewell connections to the farmers whereas previous Congress Government never bothered to release even single connection. He said he had already asked the PSPCl authorities to release the power connections to farmers having less than five acres land at the earliest. Badal said that the State was incurring an additional burden Rs 5,000 crore per year for giving free power to the farmers but this facility would continue to provide relief to the farming community.