Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal while speaking during the ongoing budget session of the State Vidhan sabha announced that the Deras and Dhanis located within a radius of up to 3 kilometres from the village Phirni to get power connections. Earlier, this limit was 1 kilometre.
He further announced that power Consumers in the Deras and Dhanis will not have to bear any expense for the connections upto 300 metres. Earlier, this limit was 150 metres, said Manohar Lal.
The Chief Minister said that if a connection is taken even beyond 300 metres, the expenses will be borne in a 50-50 ratio between the consumer and government.
Making another announcement, the Chief Minister said that such consumers of Deras and Dhanis, who want electricity connections from rural feeders instead of tubewells, then the government will bear the entire cost of the transformer. The consumer will only have to bear the cost of the new line.