A total of Rs 65 lakhs of electricity bills is due on 178 offices and residences of many officials. These included District judge, DC, MC and many other departments.
An official requesting anonymity from electricity departments said that a total of Rs 65,74,358 is due on several departments up to January 2014. After three months this amount has been increased more. Although the update is not available at the department. The department is facing a lot of problems to collect the revenue. According to the executive engineer of electric department Gopal Prasad Bernwal many steps are being taken to collect the appropriate revenues at many levels.
According to the data of electric department Rs. 139441 on DC, Rs. 250893 on lohardaga Municipal Corporation, Rs. 1049153 on PHED, Rs. 147013 on the asst engineer PHED Kisko, Rs. 553293 on SDJM, Rs. 87878 on SDE BSNl Mobile, Rs. 29053 on Mandal jail and Rs. 196929 on the Civil SDO is due. Moreover the asst engineer REO, Chunni lal High School, secretary of Bar association, Civil Surgeon, asst engineer small irrigation department, DWO, asst engineer PWD, District Sub Registrar, DPRO, superintendent of Sadar Hospital, Power Ganj Middle School, secretary Bazar Samiti and many departments have to pay the electric bill. The department has started to collect it.
The executive engineer of lohardaga Electric Sub Division Gopal Prasad Barnwal said, “The steps to collect the bill has been starting at the Board level and very soon it will be collected.”