Police personnel are serving notices for mega lok adalats in the urban areas of the Palamu. The mega lok adalat is to start this August 26 and will run for five days ending on August 30. The principal district and sessions judge Palamu civil court Kishore Kumar Srivastava said the policemen are extending a big helping hand this time.
He asked people to be serious about the mega lok adalat which offers them a chance to clear their claim/disputes under the authority of law.
The PDJ had parleys with the SP Palamu Y S Ramesh in this connection. Srivastava said the BSNl defaulters should take advantage of various range of discounts for their outstanding dues as announced by the BSNl. The PDJ said the discount is even upto 50% if the duration of outstanding bill stretches to ten years.
Court sources said the PDJ is closely monitoring the preparation work of the coming mega lok adalat. The DC Palamu K N Jha too held a meeting with his officials like excise department and others for this mega lok adalat. Banks too are issuing notices through the police in the urban areas. The PNB has a list of 4,992 defaulters. The SBI has hundreds cases of defaulting of loan payments. The lok adalats are coming as a check on NPA which come as a sink for the bank the loaner.
One accounts officer telephone revenue of BSNl Daltonganj P K Raj said this mega lok adalat offers a big chance to defaulter customers of BSNl to clear or settle their cases.
More than 76 lakh of rupees by way of unpaid bills lie with the defaulter customers of the BSNl here in Palamu. Raj added out of this 40,76,485 rupees stand with the 500 defaulter customers of the BSNl alone in Daltonganj.
Reeling out statistics Raj said dues worth 35, 38, 270 lie with defaukter BSNl customers in Chainpur, Narsinghpoorpathra, Chattarpur, Harihurganj, Mohammadganj, Haidernagar, Japla, lesliganj, Panki, polpol, Satbarwa, Pandwa and Paton.
If 90 defaulters are in rural area like Chainpur there are 70 such defaulters in Harihurganj. All are sitting with BSNl money by way of not making payment of dues. Their basic lines stand closed. The BSNl has prepared 3,000 notices which are being served by the police.
This mega lok adalat comes a green to BSNl defaulters as BSNl is getting prepared to go for case under Public Demand Recovery Act to be lodged against the defaulters if they donot come to this mega lok adalat for settlement of their outstanding dues. Raj said ‘ The BSNl is serious if defaulters take this mega opportunity for a ride’.