Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, September 18, The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) today that the NDA government has failed to deliver on its 24X7 promise of supply of electricity as almost in every part of the country and especially in Uttar Pradesh consumers continue to face absolutely unreliable supply as distribution utilities are in poor state because of massive financial crunch. The LGP said despite tall claims being made by the government power plants remain underutilised with rural areas turning out to be worst sufferer.
The spokesman of the party said here on Tuesday that far from buttressing growth, the sector risks acting as a drag on the economy as its poor finances reverberate through the Indian banking sector in the form of stubbornly intractable non-performing assets. The spokesman further said economic growth is closely interlinked with healthy electricity sector but the situation continued to be pitiable. The spokesman said in UP rural areas are facing worst power shortage and the claim of the state government about 15 to 18 hours supply is just on the paper as ground realities are different. The spokesman said that UP government had also claimed about full electrification in rural areas but even basic infrastructure of spreading wire is still incomplete. The spokesman said the government’s assertion about power supply is misleading. The spokesman said that even NDA government’s claim of electrifying all villages in India is exaggerated in the absence of supply electricity to each and every household in the country. The spokesman said electricity supply in rural areas is chaotic. The UP villages with extremely poor infrastructure are not getting supply for than eight to ten hours.
The spokesman said short supply is a major problem which the state government has not been able to overcome and it has also badly affected farming activities. The spokesman said the government has been facing massive transmission losses, which is actually large scale theft in connivance with electricity employees and officers. The spokesman said in UP the “transmission loss†is about 50% along with piling up of massive pending payments. It is not that the people in rural areas do not want to pay, they are always ready to make payment but their only demand is regular supply, the spokesman said.
