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Even as the UT administration has rolled out an amnesty scheme for the consumers to facilitate the recovery of pending dues, the central and J&K departments have turned out to be major power bill defaulters in the Union Territory as they alone owe the power development department dues of around Rs 6,000 crore.

According to the official data, various categories of consumers, including government departments, industrial units, commercial establishments and domestic consumers, have whopping electricity dues of Rs 9321.71 crore across Jammu and Kashmir.

Out the Rs 9321.71-crore arrears, the government departments owe Rs 5935.04 crore, including Rs 1864.20 crore to the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) and Rs 4070.84 crore to Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (JPDCL).

“The industrial and commercial establishments have the electricity dues of Rs 1462.33 crore, including Rs 581.81 crore to the KPDCL and Rs 880.52 crore to the JPDCL. As far as the domestic consumers are concerned, there pending electricity dues to the KPDCL are Rs 828.39 crore and Rs 1095.95 crore to the JPDCL.