Patiala: The Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) has given relief to all consumers and residents’ welfare organisations of colonies where developers sold plots or housing without first receiving the NOC from the PSPCL, or where developers later abandoned the project without putting in the local distribution (LD) system, for a variety of reasons.
The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) was instructed to take the necessary steps to establish electrical connections where they had not previously been granted by the PSERC in its order dated July 25, which concluded the numerous petitions.
The order covers three different sorts of colonies: abandoned colonies, licenced contiguous colonies, and regularised unapproved colonies adjacent to licenced colonies. To build the LD system in these colonies, the colony’s developers were required to get a NOC from the PSPCL.
In their colonies, where they were meant to install transformers and electricity wires, several developers abandoned the electrical system plan.
The Supreme Court’s May 19 ruling, which said that Section 43 of the 2003 Act’s obligation to supply electricity was not absolute and was subject to the fees and compliances stipulated by the electric utilities as part of the request for supply of electricity, was cited by the PSERC.
Out of the 71 colonies cited in the petition, over 40 had connections provided without the LD system being finished or without receiving a bank guarantee from the developer, according to the PSPCL’s response.
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In addition, the PSERC indicated in its order that a one-time settlement plan for finishing electrical works might be provided to provide customers and RWAs one last chance to complete the project.
The PSPCL has been instructed to take action right away in accordance with the legislation to suspend or revoke the licences of all such developers who were in violation of the terms of licence by failing to acquire NOCs from the PSPCL or finish the colony’s LD system.
The licencing authority is in charge of seeing that the development work for such colonies is finished after the promoter’s licence has been suspended or revoked by the licencing authority.
By cashing in the bank guarantee or selling the mortgaged property, the licencing authority can complete the work and, in the event that there are any overrun costs, recover them from the developer and the allottees. Another option for finishing the electrical work is to deposit the money with the PSPCL.
The consumers would gain from this order, according to Vinod Gupta, a spokesperson for the All India Power Engineers Federation.
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