MeSEB Incurs Heavy Loss Due to Power theft

Tura, Mar 13 : The Meghalaya State Electricity Board (MeSEB) is running under heavy loss as consumers are indulging in large-scale malpractices, both in rural and urban areas. Without the knowledge of the Board, there has been a mass tapping and increase in power load. This has led to transformers bursting as the intake load capacity increases.

In Garo Hills alone, the situation has become so worse that a huge revenue loss is being incurred by the board. Many cases of overloading and improper service connections are being observed. The board officials are conducting raids and are now giving notice to those defaulters.

In a raid at Dalu, Gasuapara and Chokpot, the department came across many illegal connections. Two coal export industries, namely HNZ Company and JC Company have engaged in heavy power theft. HNZ Company declared connected load of 2.92 KW. However, the actual connected load is 14 KW. JC Company had declared that connected load as 4.53 KW and the actual connected load is 20.26 KW.

The Excise Office located at Barenggapara has been using electricity for years without any connection. The building is owned by Tourism Pvt Ltd and the electricity line is extended from nearby coal export firm JC Company.

Many commercial coal export companies have sprout up in areas like lower Gasuapara and most of them are resorting to illegal use of electricity.

“Most of the consumer don’t inform about increasing the capacity load when they construct a new house or the as the case maybe, which is leading to failure of transformers,” UN Madan, CEO, MeSEB, Garo Hills, said.

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