Appreciating Yogi Government’s decision to provide free electricity connections to poor, senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav has appealed to people not to go for power theft and instead should apply for free electric connection.
He said while addressing people during free electric connection distribution programme held at Jaswant Nagar on Sunday.
“This government is working for the welfare of people. So, people should support this government had go for free electric connection. If they hare feeling any problem they should lodge a complaint with officers,” Yadav said.
In Jaswant nagar the assembly constituency of Shivpal Singh Yadav 595 people were given free electric connections. lED bulbs were also sold in this camp.
Meanwhile, Power Minister Srikant Sharma launched free power connection scheme for the BPl card holders in the state in Mathura. The scheme was kicked-off in 624 places across the state,” he said.
Sharma said the scheme would also benefit the poor people who do not have BPl cards at present. “Such people would have to pay between Rs 80 to Rs 120 for getting the power connection,” he said adding: “The scheme would also provide relief to the middle class people as the instalment payment facility would be admissible for them.”
Sharma said while the Centre had launched the free gas connection scheme for the poor, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is giving free power connection to the same class of people.
Meanwhile, BJP has hailed the government’s decision to distribute free power connections to the BPl families. Party’s spokesman Dr Manoj Mishra said in a statement issued here on Sunday said that this decision will transform villages.
“Power Minister as well as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should be complemented for for this historic decision,” he said.