MUMBAI: Aside from suffering enormous losses throughout Cyclone Tauktae lately, the MSEDCL is to regain Rs 686 crore power bill arrears from customers over Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
On Friday, MSEDCL leader Suresh Ganeshkar appealed to customers in MMR to aid the state electricity firm by draining all pending payments.
He said:”The cash must buy electricity from producing units while additionally for daily operational and maintenance expenditures.
Of the overall arrears, Rs 200 crore is impending for payment of power bills from home customers in MMR for the previous one year while industrial customers also have arrears to the tune of Rs 120 crore.
” The most recent statistics reveal that business consumers have pending electricity bills in MMR into the tune of Rs 88 crore.
At precisely the identical period, Rs 195 crore needs to be compensated to the street lighting to the energy utility company.
“The maximum cash for streetlights must come in Pen circle g panchayat,” stated an official, including that the MSEDCL has indicated for them to elect for”automatic change methods” to ensure streetlights are closed during daylight and don’t absorb power .
The MMR covers Mulund-Bhandup, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Panvel and Pen regions.
Back in February, MSEDCL had established a drive to briefly detach electricity supply of customers who neglected to cover the invoices.
After the drive was started, around 47,000 users from the Mumbai area paid up after getting admissions and MSEDCL managed to recoup Rs 62 crore.
Then, over 1 lakh relations were briefly disconnected along with the customers paid upwards.
However, the arrears continued to stack up together with interest , a formal added.