District Collector Ashok Agarwal has set three month's time for Genus Power Company to complete the work under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Programme in the district.
Expressing anger over non completion of work within the assigned time-frame and target, the Collector issued a stern directive to the officials of Genus Power Company to complete the work under any circumstances by June 15 this year. Agarwal was chairing a joint meeting of the officials of power distribution companies, implementing agencies besides officials of Genus Power Company and NHPCl at the District Collectorate to review the progress of work under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Programme here on Wednesday evening, an official statement issued here said on Thursday. It was informed in the meeting that a total of 1551 villages and 'Majratolas' are to be electrified out of which the Genus Power Company had been assigned work for electrification in 1,470 villages.
Out of the 1,470 villages, the power distribution company had taken upon itself the responsibility after carrying out tests for supply of power in 786 villages.
Under the programme, out a total of 13,887 Below Poverty line (BPl) families , 13,000 have already received domestic power connection with the completion of electricity distribution work. Out of the 13,887 BPl families , the work of providing power in the houses of 7,632 families is with the power distribution company.