The discoms will have to compensate a consumer nearly 10 times the fine they "falsely" impose on him for power theft, the city's power department has said.
Noting a "delay", Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today asked the power department to expedite the implementation of the notification which was earlier issued to Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC).
According to the notification, DERC will depute senior officials to give requisite permissions required to carry out inspections of discoms wherever cases of power theft and misuse are reported.
"During examination, if PG (Public Grievance) cell arrives at the conclusion that the theft case was false, the discom will be liable to pay compensation to the affected consumer at 10 times the provisional assessment bill raised by the discom to compensate for the harassment caused to the consumer," it says.
The notification said that many such complaints have been received by various MLAs across Delhi.
"Simultaneously, such cases will also have to be reported with the consumer grievance cell of the Delhi Government. Moreover, only after approvals from the Public Grievance Cell of the Delhi Government, the discoms can send the bill to the consumers for final assessment," an official statement said.
"I was surprised to know that around 1,000 tonnes of cow dung is produced daily in the city. The city has around 1 lakh cows. Right now there are no facilities to process it and the slush which is around 600 tonnes," Jain said.
The government is also considering to process 3000 tonnes of waste produced by the markets around the city "on spot", Jain said, adding that the same could be done in hotels and large housing societies as well.
Jain said processing of waste was the government's "medium-term" goal towards tackling air pollution.
The National Highways Authority of India has agreed to use waste from Ghazipur landfill site but the Delhi government's PWD department has no such plan, he said.
"There will soon be an app which will enable people to track the MCD employees of their areas and hold them accountable. There will be provisions to upload images of uncollected waste as well," Jain said.
The existing capacity of Delhi's all three landfill sites stands at 4,660 MTD. All these are operating beyond their saturation point, the Economic Survey report by the Delhi government had said last year.
The three sites at Bhalswa and Ghazipur, commissioned in 1984, and Okhla, in 1996, are not designed as per the Municipal Solid Waste Rules of 2000 and lack authorisation from the DPCC but continue to function as MCDs cite lack of land to set up new garbage dumping grounds.
