Chheharta (Media Bureau) For the convenience of consumers, Powercom management has directed to open cash counters from 9 am to 2 pm. Stop taking electricity bills from consumers. The people of Khandwala power plant in East Division on Tuesday had to face difficulties due to the working practices of the employees who flouted government orders. At around 11.50 am, the employees sitting at the cash counter refused to accept the bill from the consumers who had come to pay their electricity bills. He also said that electricity bills would be paid at the cash counter only till 12 noon as the cash was being counted. Jaswinder Singh, a resident of Chheharta, Sunil Kumar, a resident of Khandwala, Seetal, Attarmohan Singh said that instead of collecting the electricity bill, the employees sitting at the cash counter of Powercom were asking them to come the next day. After hearing the problems of the people, the representative of the private newspaper reached out to the staff members posted at the cash counter and asked them not to collect the electricity bill. They said that you should talk to the SDO of the sub division. While now the electricity bills cannot be deposited at the cash counter, when they were told that the cash counter was instructed to be open from 9 am to 2 pm, the employees could not give a clear answer. When SDO Dharminder Singh came out of his office, he also refused to accept the electricity bill. He said that electricity bills are submitted till 12 noon only because after that the bank cannot deposit cash and they cannot keep the cash with them. To solve the problem facing the consumers of Powercom, when the representative of ‘Punjabi Jagran’ informed the top officials of the department about the problem of the people, the SDO immediately came out and asked the staff members sitting at the cash counter to collect the bill from the people. Ordered. On the other hand, it became clear again in the evening that electricity bills were collected from consumers at the cash counters only till 12.30 pm, with which it is clear how much consumers are harassed in power plants.
