Smart Electricity Meter: Smart meters will not be installed in the hilly areas and rural areas of the state where there is no internet connection. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal clarified in the House that the work of installing smart meters is being done under a nationwide scheme.
This will help in knowing the consumption of electricity in real time. The person will have to pay the bill as much electricity he uses. He said that these meters are not being installed on prepaid mode but on postpaid mode.
Angered by this reply of the government, the opposition walked out of the House. Earlier in the morning, before the proceedings of the House began, the Congress MLAs also staged a dharna in front of the entrance. As soon as the session began on Wednesday, Congress demanded a discussion on smart meters under Rule 310 in the House, on which the Speaker of the Assembly made arrangements to hear it on the admissibility of Rule 58.
While discussing this, Leader of Opposition Yashpal Arya said that there are allegations all over the state that the government is forcibly imposing these meters on the common people. Digital meters were installed only two years ago. A lot of corruption came to light in these. Now the meters are being changed again. He said that the government has handed over the task of installing pre-paid meters to the Adani Group.
He said that protests and sieges are being held against it across the state. After installing smart meters, the companies will put whatever pressure they want on the public. He said that if it is not recharged, the electricity will be cut off automatically. Where there is no network, how will people use it? Where smart meters have been installed earlier, there are many flaws in them. Congress strongly opposes this.
MLA Tilakraj Behad said that the government has given the contract to install these meters at a cost of Rs 2027 crore to different companies in Garhwal and Kumaon. In Garhwal, this contract has been given to Genesis Company, which has been raided by ED and two of its officers are in jail. Deputy Leader of Opposition Bhuvan Kapri said that the bill for this meter will come in 28 days, that is, the common man will have to pay the bill for 13 months instead of 12 months.
Mamta Rakesh, Bhuvan Chand Kapri, Adesh Chauhan, Gopal Singh Rana, Pritam Singh, Sumit Hridayesh, Vikram Negi, Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Bahadur, Mamta Rakesh and Virendra Jati also expressed their views from the Congress side. Responding to this, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prem Chand Agarwal said that installation of meters will stop theft. Billing problems will end with its online reading. The work of company selection has been done with complete transparency. The government is working on this thoughtfully.
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