NEA collects Rs. 238mln as tariff dues from 35 companies

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Nov. 13: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has collected a sum of Rs. 238 million 772 thousand as instalment of tariff dues from 35 companies.

NEA has to collect a sum of Rs. 5 billion 945 million from these 35 companies as the premium tariff dues for using electricity through dedicated and trunk lines during the load-shedding period from 2015 to 2018.

Kulman Ghising, Minister for Energy, Water Resource and Irrigation, has thanked the industries for starting to pay the arrears as the obligation to the state. NEA has provided a facility for the companies to pay premium tariff dues in instalment.

Out of 35 companies, previously 10 were paying the dues while 25 companies were defying it. As the 25 did not pay even a single instalment, even those 10 which had started paying had stopped it.

Now, those 10 have given continuity to pay tariff dues while remaining 25 have also paid their first instalment.

NEA had disconnected electricity to companies not paying instalment, and now electricity has been provided to them as they have paid the instalment.