Yogi to replicate 'Gujarat Model' to curb power theft

'Power to All' requires 20 million new connections in UP

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, which has signed the ‘Power to All’ document with the Centre to provide 24X7 electricity supply to all households is gearing up to replicate Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state ‘Gujarat Model’ to curb rampant power theft in the state.

Aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses, including power theft and pilferages, are to the tune of almost 40 percent in the state, thereby indicating the high level of uneconomical power utilisation and subsequent financial losses to the power distribution companies (discoms).

Under stringent Gujarat Model, special police stations and vigilance squads would be set up