LPA takes steps to stop harassment
Lucknow Printers’ Association (LPA) has reported that printers from the city of Nawabs are unhappy with the activities of the state electricity board. The authorities at the board have classified printing presses in Lucknow under the industrial category.
16 Mar 2015 | 2362 Views | By Anand Srinivasan
Harjinder Singh, general secretary of LPA said that the board has filed a case on printers stating that they are consuming electricity through commercial connections. “The electricity department is filing cases of electricity theft against printers. We have had to face unnecessary raids at our facilities,” said a Lucknow printer.
LPA took up the issue with the board, following which a formal meeting was arranged today, 16 March, 2015. Members of the association attend the meeting, along with members of Uttar Pradesh Aadarsh Vyapar Mandal and Upbhokta Parishad dignitaries.
“Today LPA has created history,” said Singh adding, “LPA has made the electricity department to reverse its decision of penalising the printers for theft of electricity. They have agreed to return the penalty amount collected, which runs into lakhs of rupees or adjust the amount in their bills.”
According to a report, all further raids on printing companies will stop from today. Also the printers’ bills would be regularised by the Lucknow electricity board (LESA) on the tariff plan without taking any approval from other departments which would save money of all printers which is in lakhs.