Punjab Power Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar on Monday distributed appointment letters to 622 Assistant linemen in a function here whose appointments have been pending since long.
He said Punjab Power State Corporation limited has already appointed 2,800 Assistant linemen, 300 Junior Engineers, 248 Sub-station Assistants. Besides these 698 dependents of those employees of PSPCl, who had died in service, have been inducted into PSPCl on compassionate grounds. Kangar added that in near future, fresh recruitment of 338 lower division clerks would be made in PSPCl.
The Power Minister said the state has now signed agreement that enables PSPCl to get coal from Pachwara Mines (in Jharkhand) at Rs 860 per quintal. “Earlier the PSPCl was getting coal at Rs 2000 per quintal. With the new rates, we will be saving Rs 800 cr annually, which is a big economical saving,” the Power Minister added.
Kangar said camps have been arranged in the suburban sub-divisions of the whole of Punjab for change of ownership of tubewell connections, wherever necessary. The farmer consumers have been provided special facility for on-the-spot change of name. This would save the farmers from making rounds of the government offices.
He said PSPCl collected Rs 216 Crore and Rs 124 crore on August 16 and August 17 respectively by digital means and added that the Corporation has been supplying 24- hour uninterrupted power supply to all the categories of electricity consumers. During the paddy season, consumers of agriculture tubewell connections are getting 8-hour continuous power supply.