LUCKNOW UP Power Company Ltd (UPPCL) chairman Ashish Kumar Goel has rejected all the objections the company had put on 75,000 applications obtained on the Jhatpat Portal for new electrical energy connections in a bid to pave the way in which for an early sanction.
“As sanction for new connections was getting delayed, the chairman rejected all the objections associated to 75,000 applications for new power connections,” mentioned a UPPCL spokesman.
Goel directed officers to make sure that the chief engineers take a call in circumstances the place it was not doable to present a power connection attributable to some technical or necessary purpose.
He mentioned the officers had been instructed to work with the mindset that they needed to give power connections to individuals with out placing pointless objections on applications.
Later, holding a gathering with the Lucknow discom officers right here, Goel directed officers to make all doable efforts to rapidly eliminate customers’ complaints. He additionally warned them towards any misbehaviour with customers or demanding bribe. He cited an instance of a Gorakhpur shopper who was harassed within the identify of reconnection of his provide. “Such conduct is insupportable,” he added.