Chhattisgarh Parliamentary Secretary Bhaiyalal Rajwade on Friday directed officials to deal firmly with those indulging in power pilferage in the district.
Rajwade passed the directives during a meeting of the district-level Electricity Consultative Committee at the Collectorate here.
He said that there must be speedy redressal of the complaints relating to problems of low voltage and malfunctioning transformers.
The Parliamentary Secretary said that the Government had been providing 6000 units of free electricity to farmers owning irrigation pumps of three horse power (HP) and 7,500 units of free electricity to farmers owning irrigation pumps of 3 to 5 (HP) on an annual basis.
The Government had taken a decision that it would provide extra grant to the farmers of any category residing near rivers, nullahs and Anicuts beside the Rs75,000 being received by them as grant.
In the meeting MlA of Bharatpur-Sonhat Fulchand Singh directed that proper maintenance and repair of equipments be done in the villages receiving power from solar energy.
Manendragarh MlA Deepak Patel said that irrigation pumps must be energised jointly by the Agriculture and Power Department by holding camps in various villages.
Korea District Collector Avinash Champawat directed officials to bring about momentum in the work of electrification in ‘majra-tolas’ of the district under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Programme.
He directed that the all work under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Programme be completed by June 2014.
Submitting the compliance report, Chhattisgarh Power Distribution Company, Manendragarh, Executive Engineer A K Gupta said that implementation of the action plan for completion of work costing Rs83 crore is underway under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Programme covering ‘majra tolas’ with a population of more than 100 people.
The work in ‘majra tolas’ which are left for electrification would be taken up with funds from backward area grants corpus and integrated action plan, he added.