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Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is to resume power supply to the consumers who have used electricity from dedicated feeder and trunk line in the past but have not paid premium charge for that.
The 960th meeting of the NEA Board of Directors held under chairmanship of Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation today decided to reconnect the electricity of the industries as per the decision of the cabinet meeting.
The NEA had disconnected the power supply to 24 industries that had to pay more than 50 million Rs tariff.
The NEA Board of Directors had directed the NEA management to resume the power supply to such industries until the report submitted by a probe commission formed by the government and a decision taken by the government.
The Cabinet meeting had formed the probe commission under coordination of former justice of the Supreme Court, Girish Chandra Lal, to recommend for the resolution of power tariff dispute surfaced between the NEA and industrialists.
Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and irrigation, and Industry Secretary were the members of the commission.
The meeting through the Energy Ministry had directed the NEA to reconnect the power supply until the next decision of the government. The Ministry had on Thursday sent a letter to implement the directive.