In a significant move aimed at providing relief to various sectors, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday announced the implementation of a Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS) for enhancing the loads of tubewells, residential, and commercial power connections. The initiative involved a
Punjab, a Congress-ruled state, will go to polls early next year. "In view of the hardship being faced by the weaker section of society due to the pandemic, the per unit tariff for domestic consumers with load up to 2kW (kilowatt) and consumption slabs of 0-100 units and 101-300 units have been reduced by Re 1 and 50 paise, respectively," it said.