Press Release
Railways caught stealing electricity
100 % electricity requirement of Nizammudin Railway Colony
being directly tapped (stolen) from BSES overhead system.
- Entire colony caught running
on un-metered electricity
- Stolen electricity
used for both domestic lighting and community services like Community
Pumping Stations, Streetlights, Corridor lighting etc
- Preliminary
assessment pegs the connected load at over 150 KW
- A bill of Rs 62.73
lakh has been raised on the Railways
- Interestingly, Railways was billing all
individuals (over 50 households) for this stolen electricity
- Having unearthed electricity theft
by consumers cutting across all sections of the society – rich or poor,
BSES in a recent survey was startled to discover electricity theft by none
else but Indian Railways.
- The survey found that the Indian
Railways’ entire colony in
- Clearly, the colony’s entire power
needs – including 50 households, a water pumping station, internal
street-lights, corridor lighting etc – was met on stolen electricity.
- Preliminary assessment has pegged
the blatant power theft at over 150 KW.
- Electricity charges have been
assessed at over Rs 62 lakh (for the BSES period)
- BSES has brought case to the notice
of senior officials of Northern Railway.
- Interestingly, though electricity
was stolen, Railways was charging the users for the same by installing
their own meters.
- Excerpts from BSES communication to the Railways: “Worst still,
Railways have installed own meters in each of their employee’s quarters
and are realizing energy charges from such users regularly without paying
any energy charges to the Discom”.
- Railways tried to dismiss BSES
charge initially by saying that the colony was being fed electricity from
the HT connection provided by BSES at the Nizamuddin Railway Station.
- A joint inspection found the
Railways claim to be untrue as the power was infact being stolen from
BSES’s nearby Pratap Nagar sub-station.
- This was demonstrated by BSES’ O
& M staff by switching off the LT connection at the Pratap Nagar sub-station,
which led to the black out of the entire colony.
- BSES has now given an ultimatum to
the Railways to immediately pay up the assessment bill of Rs 62.73 lakh
within a week and regularise these connections or face legal consequence
and disconnection of the power supply.
- “This conscious action on behalf of Railways tantamounts to
Dishonest Abstraction of Electricity which is a violation u/s 135 of
Indian Electricity Act 2003” says the BSES communication.
- BSES has been repeatedly asking the Railways to disclose all their assets in the BSES license area and to regularise their electricity connections.
- It is suspected that that there
could more number of such illegal connections in
- BSES urges its customers to come
forward and report power theft. In addition to the two dedicated and
exclusive numbers to report power theft – 39999777 (BRPL) and 39999888
(BYPL), BSES customers can also report power theft on the two newly
created email ids theft.bypl@bsesdelhi.com
(BYPL) and theft.brpl@bsesdelhi.com
(BRPL)
- According to a BSES spokesperson
“BSES urges its customers to join BSES’ mission to eradicate the menace of
power theft form
BSES, Delhi’s
premier power distribution company, is committed to ensuring quality and
reliable electricity supply to all its consumers.
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For further
information please contact:
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Prashant Dua |
Chandra P Kamat |
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Corporate
Communications |
Corporate
Communications |
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39999870 /
9312007822 |
39999088/9350130304 |