Kathmandu, 8 May: The industrialists have accused the Nepal Electricity Authority of having billed them ‘illegally’ for the past three years for using regular electricity supply through dedicated feeders and trunk lines. They have denied to pay the bill amount as well.
The state-owned power utility said that certain factories received electricity through dedicated feeders worth billions of rupees when the rest of the country suffered load-shedding. It said it was calculating the actual amount of the outstanding electricity bills.
On Tuesday the office bearers of Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Confederation of Nepali Industries and Federation of Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industry came to the defense of the industrialists and countered the utility’s charges, questioning the motive for billing them for such huge amounts. They claimed that the utility had even billed those factories that had not signed any agreements for regular electricity supply.
The private sector representatives said that the claim made by the authority was ‘unacceptable’.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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