51L houses to get zero electricity bill in Punjab from Sept: Mann

chandigarh: In a major relief to residents of the state, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday announced that as per the decision of the state government to provide 600 units of free power, per billing cycle to people, around 51 lakh households will get zero electricity bill from September.

Divulging the details, the Chief Minister said that fulfilling its major guarantee, the state government has decided to provide 600 units of free power to every household per billing cycle in the state with effect from July 1, 2022. He said that all the domestic consumers in the state will be eligible to get zero bills if their consumption is upto 600 units in every billing cycle.

Mann said that this decision has been implemented from July 1, so the households who will consume less than 600 units of power in the billing cycle of July and August will not have to pay even a single penny.