Haryana offers incentives on digital payment of power bills

First digital payment by rural consumers will fetch them ₹20 as incentive and making digital payment of bill up to ₹2,000 incentive of 0.5% of amount will be given

Switch over to digital mode of payment of electricity bills and get monetary incentive of ₹20. That’s the scheme the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) has started for rural consumers on the lines of urban areas, an official spokesperson said.

The key objective of this scheme is to encourage rural consumers to make digital payments as part of the ‘Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon Yojana’.

The key objective of this scheme is to encourage rural consumers to make digital payments as part of the ‘Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon Yojana’ under which more than 75 per cent villages of the state are being supplied 24-hour power.

The first digital payment by rural consumers will fetch them ₹20 as incentive and making digital payment of electricity bill up to ₹2,000 an incentive amount of 0.5 per cent of the bill amount (up to a maximum of ₹10) will be given.

Apart from this, an incentive amount of ₹50 will be given for digital payment of 6 consecutive bills by the consumer. Panchayats of villages having more than 90 per cent electricity bill payment and more than 90 per cent of them through digital medium will be honoured by the corporation by giving an amount of ₹2 lakh, which can be spent on development works of the village.