Over 9-hour supply to Punjab farmers, claims PSPCL

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 4

Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) is ensuring uninterrupted 8-hour electricity supply to farmers daily for paddy sowing even amid an unprecedented hike in demand across the domestic sector.

PSPCL Chief Managing Director (CMD) A Venu Prasad said the top priority for the department is to fulfil the requirements of the agriculture sector in view of the ongoing paddy operations. “Farmers across the state are being provided minimum of eight hours power supply,” he said.

The CMD said the average supply hours for the border zone comprising Gurdaspur, Amritsar and Tarn Taran was 12.4 hours, while Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur & Nawanshahar districts of the north zone received an average 10.3 hours of supply on the same day.

Similarly, farmers of Patiala, Sangrur, Barnala, Ropar and Mohali districts that form the south zone got on average 9.6 hours of electricity supply during the same period. Areas of Bathinda, Faridkot, Muktsar and Ferozpur got 8.9 hours average supply. The overall state average of power supply hours to the sector on the same day turns out to be 9.8 hours.