Bijli Utsav, Vidyut Mahoutsav held
Amarpur, Jul 25, 2022, TRIPURATIMES Desk
Amarpur July 25: A Bijli Utsav was held in Amaprpur with the initiatives of Amarpur Circle of TSECL and Power Grid on Monday. Local MLA Ranjit Das inaugurated the Utsav. Among others MLA of Ampinagar Sindhu Chandra Jamatia, SDM Asit Kumar Das, AGM of Gomati District unit of TSECL Sathi Chatterjee, GM of Gomati district of Power Grid Ranjit Sarkar and other dignitaries were present at the programme.
Speaking on the occasion, Sathi Chatterjee said two thousand families in Gomati District were provided power connections free of cost under the Dinadayal and Saubhagya Yojanas in the last few years. With the introduction of online facilities for new connections and bill payments has made the system easy and comfortable for people.
“The number of power consumers increased over the years. There were 6,00,929 customers in 2015 which increased to 9,32,715 at present”, Chatterjee said.
Our Charilam correspondent adds: Assistant Sabhadhipati of Sepahijala Zilla Parishad Pintu Aich formally inaugurated Vidyut Mahoutsav at Charilam on Monday. Among others, GM of NEEPCO Vijay Kumar, TSECL Officers of Sepahijala circle Nandita Das and Pradip Sutradhar, SDM Bishalgarh Binoybhusan Das, BDO Charilam Binoy Das and chairperson of Charilam Block Panchayat Samiti Rakhi Das Kar were present. Speakers discussed the progress of the power sector and its benefits from 2014 to 2022.