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CHANDIGARH: Holding its ballot promise, the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) executive in Punjab introduced loose provide of 300 devices of energy each and every month, beginning Friday, to each and every circle of relatives within the state. An quantity of Rs 1,800 crore was once reserved for this function within the price range proposal this 12 months.
Saying the verdict, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann on Friday stated, “Whilst all different governments took 5 complete years to stay their ballot guarantees, our executive had fulfilled its main ensure inside of 3 months of coming to energy. Each circle of relatives throughout Punjab gets 300 devices of loose energy each and every month.’’
The transfer will receive advantages 73.39 lakh shoppers. Over 60 lakh shoppers are estimated to eat as much as 300 devices of energy a month.
Mann added that arrears of all electrical energy expenses pending until Dec. 31, 2021, of all families were waived. AAP’s nationwide convener and Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday tweeted to reward the Mann executive’s determination. “We have now fulfilled our promise. The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration does what it says. Folks of Punjab will eliminate pricey electrical energy,” Kejriwal posted.
Consistent with resources, the overall blueprint of the scheme is but to be cleared by means of the state Cupboard, which is predicted to satisfy quickly. A gathering of the Board of Punjab State Energy Company was once hung on Friday to finalise the main points.
The sooner schemes introduced by means of the former governments, by which all home shoppers having load of as much as 1 kw, and the SC, BC and BPL shoppers, were given 200 devices of loose energy, will probably be subsumed within the new scheme.
The whole energy subsidy invoice of the state executive this 12 months is predicted to upward push to Rs 15,846 crore. The state executive additionally has to pay an influence subsidy of Rs 7,117 crore from the former years, which was once no longer paid by means of the former executive. Thus the state must pay Rs 22,962 crore this 12 months as subsidy which interprets to 24 according to cent of the state’s general earnings receipts of Rs 95,378 crore for this 12 months.