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| POWER AMNESTY SCHEME IN J&K Written by Ashok Raina | | | | Finally, the government of Jammu and Kashmir has given the final touch related to the power amnesty scheme for the benefit of its people to overcome the problems being faced by them. That to sharply redress the grievances of the people of state especially from the people living from the rural areas.
It can not be ruled out that the government has done to act the activities for to removal of all non-skills aptitudes and has made announcement related the power amnesty which will benefited the large density populated state of Jammu and Kashmir at large and government will tolerate more and more expenditures upon this under the power amnesty scheme.
It is pertinent to mention here that the last time the people of state from several different parts have registered their complaints for making incorrect insertions from the measurement of supply of power meters and put them on for the badly hit financial credit crisis within the power department of state of Jammu and Kashmir. That it has been also analyzed the large number of consumers fails on desk to made their due payments of the electricity bills within the time limit period of time with the result the large number of connection were being cancelled and put on dark the large number of families of poor people had thereafter developed the critical problems among the school going children to read out and to write make known the power meters that have made them highly disturbed from all sides.
You remember the days when a large number of families had registered their protest demonstration and had come on roads to register their grievances. That before and after the followed the holy Eid-ul fitr the government of Jammu and Kashmir has given the opportunities to all those poor families to made their due payments in the shape of installments in future for to come out the darkness though were prevailed by means of initiatives taken by the concerned administration blocks of the state.
After taken into the consideration the subject matter of power tariff though where is being made enormously obligatory for the people of Jammu and Kashmir the government of Jammu and Kashmir have given the birth of new power amnesty scheme to empower with other enlightens for to make removal of all darkness curves from the all sides and corners of the state.
That present status and results of initiatives taken by the local self-government in favor of the deserving ones has offered a waiver on interest and surcharge accumulated up to march 31,2026 accordingly.
The state of Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday claimed and said that more than 2.8 lakh domestic power consumers across the Union Territory have benefited from the first electricity Amnesty Scheme, which offered a waiver on interest and surcharge accumulated up to March 31, 2022. Responding to the series of quarries raised by legislator Tariq Hameed Kara, the Power Development Department (PDD) informed that the scheme had brought considerable financial relief to households, though there is currently no proposal to extend a similar amnesty to industrial consumers for clearing their electricity dues.
According to official figures, 1,64,729 consumers under the Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (JPDCL) and 1,17,237 consumers under the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) availed the benefits during the first phase. The department had a total revenue of more than 322 crore, including more than 164 crore from JPDCL and approximately 158 crore from KPDCL.
Providing an update on the ongoing second phase of the Amnesty Scheme, launched on August 4, 2025, and open until March 31, 2026, officials said that 18,854 consumers have so far registered under the initiative — including 547 in Jammu and 18,307 in Kashmir is a good initiative that has been taken into consideration by the government to make and fulfilled the aims and ambitions of the people of Jammu and Kashmir state.
The department clarified that the relief applies only to the interest and surcharge portions of the pending bills, while the principal amount remains payable by the consumers. Thus, it has been concluded that the aspect of learning power linking programme of the state touched the mount scale of interested amount though been recovered under the effigy of energy of power tariff relax scheme, the entertaining bills for the supplements of smooth power linkage scheme among the poor families been ensured with proposals of high digestive pills for to relief the pain of people on the fox hoax paper horses on the events of historical pages.
Officials also underlined that amnesty and power disconnections are handled separately. Disconnections occur only in cases of substantial arrears, and power supply is restored immediately after consumers make partial payments. “Any remaining dues are adjusted in subsequent billing cycles,” the department noted and people hoot, beep , honk up. | | | | |
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