Haryana overdraws power at upto Rs 17 a unit

"Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) has been making all-out efforts to give maximum power supply to its consumers even by overdrawing from the grid at very high rate of up to Rs. 17 per unit," said an official spokesman of DHBVN here.

About 150 lakh units of power are being overdrawn by the state power utilities daily at the high rate and suffering a huge loss for giving maximum possible comfort to the people, he said.

To meet the rising demand of the farm and domestic sector, DHBVN has curtailed power supply to industrial sector from 18 hours a day to merely eight hours a day to divert more power to domestic and non-domestic sector, he said.

Demand for electricity in Haryana has increased to about 1600 lakh units per day against average demand of about 1150 lakh units a day, he said.

The problem of power shortage has also compunded as West Bengal refused to supply 200 MW of power to Haryana under barter arrangement. (more)