Registration for 'Gruha Jyoti' scheme to avail free electricity postponed to June 18 in Karnataka
Bengaluru, June 14: The registration for the Gruha Jyoti scheme to avail free electricity for domestic purposes up to 200 units, that was supposed to start from Thursday has been postponed to June 18, the Karnataka government said on Wednesday.
In a statement, the Energy Department said the registration is set to start from June 18.
It said the beneficiaries must register on Seva Sindhu portal under a special custom-made page for the scheme (https:evasindhugs.karnataka.gov.in/gruhajyothi).
The same can be accessed from mobile phones/computers/laptops also. Beneficiaries have to keep their Aadhaar cards, customer account IDs ready for their registration (as mentioned in the electricity bill), the department said.
According to the statement, the registration can also be done at ‘Bangalore One’, ‘Grama One’, ‘Karnataka One’ centres or at any electricity office.
For further information, contact any electricity office or call 24x7 helpline 1912.
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The registration for the Gruha Jyoti scheme to avail free electricity for domestic purposes up to 200 units, that was supposed to start from Thursday has been postponed to June 18, the Karnataka government said on Wednesday.
In a statement, the Energy Department said the registration is set to start from June 18.
It said the beneficiaries must register on Seva Sindhu portal under a special custom-made page for the scheme (https:evasindhugs.karnataka.gov.in/gruhajyothi).
The same can be accessed from mobile phones/computers/laptops also. Beneficiaries have to keep their Aadhaar cards, customer account IDs ready for their registration (as mentioned in the electricity bill), the department said.
According to the statement, the registration can also be done at ‘Bangalore One’, ‘Grama One’, ‘Karnataka One’ centres or at any electricity office.
For further information, contact any electricity office or call 24x7 helpline 1912.
"Gruha Jyothi scheme provides provision for free electricity for every residential household of Karnataka whose monthly electricity usage is less than the average monthly consumption for the financial year 2022-23 + 10 per cent and within the 200 units limit," the statement read.
Consumers with consumption more than 200 units have to pay the bill in full, the department said.
"This initiative being inclusive and welfaristic, is first of its kind and would benefit around 2.14 crore households in the state of Karnataka. The scheme is set to be launched on August 1, 2023. The beneficiaries will get a ‘zero bill’ starting August 1 (for electricity usage in July) if usage is within their entitlement," the department explained.
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Sonia Gandhi, Rahul eyed Rs 2000 cr properties without investing a penny: BJP
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Friday dared Congress leaders facing corruption charges to seek a quick and time-bound disposal of cases, as it slammed the party for citing politics as the reason for the ED's action against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.
The ruling BJP kept the heat on the opposition party following the ED's chargesheet against the Gandhis and accused chief ministers from the Congress-ruled states of ploughing public money as advertisement into the weekly newspaper which few read.
Former Union minister Anurag Thakur alleged that the Congress used the newspaper as its ATM, claiming that Gandhis sought to acquire properties worth Rs 2,000 crores of the National Herald without investing a penny from their pocket.
Both Gandhis together owned 76 per cent of the Young Indian company which was, he said, given Rs 50 lakh loan by the Congress.
The company then took over the Associated Journals Limited, which owns the newspaper affiliated to the Congress, in lieu of Rs 90 crore it owed to the opposition party, he said.
Thakur asked if a political party can give a loan.
To a question about the allegation that the ED action was politically motivated, the BJP leader dared Congress leaders facing corruption charges to move courts to seek quick and time-bound trial in the cases against them.
"If they have guts, they should do it," he said, adding that in the "Congress model of corruption" the thieves make a lot of noises.
The National Herald case, he said, has stunned the Congress ecosystem into silence.
Thakur noted Gandhis have moved courts for quashing action against them for many times since a lower court took cognizance of the matter before the Modi government came to power.
The courts gave them no relief except that they are on bail, he said, adding that the judiciary did not intervene in the Enforcement Directorate's probe.
Turning to his home state Himachal Pradesh where the Congress is in power, Thakur accused the party of not fulfilling any of its 10 main promises but spending crores of rupees in advertisement in the National Herald.
"Does any Congress leader or member read it in Himachal," he asked, demanding that people should be given details of money spent by different Congress governments in advertisements in the newspaper, which is available digitally.
The Congress has been organising protests in different parts of the country against the ED action.
