One more chance of VDS for power consumers of Haryana

Hisar, Aug 25 (UNI) The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) today decided to launch a Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS), giving another chance to the farmers to get unauthorised shifting of tubewell connections, regularised any penalty.

The decision was taken by the Haryana power transmission and Distribution Corporation, Chairman Lt Gen (retd) O S Lochchab Gen Lohchab said due to depletion of underground water and other reasons farmers shifted their tubewells to other places where water was available adequately. Such shifting was illegal without the permission of DHBVN.

However, DHBVN decided to give an opportunity to get the tubewell connections regularised by disclosing the details voluntarily in the concerned sub-divisional office of DHBVN.

Under the new scheme, the farmers shall have to pay only the shifting charges and no penalty would be imposed. The scheme will remain operative up to October 31.

Gen Lohchab said that DHBVN would now give connections to tubewells on high tension (HT) distribution system only. Each tubewell would get an independent transformer so that the farmers could get qualitative power supply at proper voltage with minimum interruptions.

It will now be mandatory to install ISI marked motors, pump sets and shunt capacitors on tubewells, without which connection would not be released, he added.

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