GURUGRAM: Residents seeking new electricity connection or load enhancement in 16 private developer colonies of the city are forced to shell out Rs 3-7 lakh for a power connection, with DHBVN deciding to recover from them the ‘development charges’ that the builders owe to the discom. Usually, it costs less than Rs 10,000 for getting a new power connection in Gurugram.
Of the over Rs 317 crore that the 13 private developers collectively owe to DHBVN for having failed to provide the much-needed power infrastructure in these 16 plotted colonies and 32 housing societies developed by them, the discom has recovered Rs 35.38 crore from new connection charges from the residents in the past three months.
