Power theft VDS extended

Chandigarh, June 15 (UNI) The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) has decided to extend the voluntary disclosure scheme (VDS) for power theft up to June 30.

A DHBVN spokesman said the Nigam had launched this scheme on May 29 for two weeks upto June 14 giving chance to those consumers who indulged in theft of electricity to get the ''irregularities regularised'' by making voluntary declarations.

The VDS has been extended in view of demand of consumers, he said.

DHBVN has offered the VDS for declaring irregularities, including tampering of meters, committed by the domestic and non-domestic consumers in its area.

To take benefit of the VDS the consumers would have to deposit a token money as regularisation charges. For declaring theft voluntarily, he said, a consumer having single phase meter would have to deposit Rs 200 per KW load as regularisation charge.

While a consumer having three phase meter shall deposit Rs 300 per KW load as regularisation charge.

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