AGARTALA, April 10 (TIWN): The officials and workers of Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL) are continuing raid and collection of fine from illegal customers of the state. But according to a highly placed source of TSECL the authority had failed to collect due bills from the government offices and also failed to prevent the stealing of electricity, which is a big problem and the concerned authorities are not able to stop this problem if the stealing of electricity continue it will became a very big issue, he mentioned.

It is to be mentioned here that the TSECL hikes power tariff in every year instead of taking proper action against wastage of power and illegal hook line users in the state, the source added.

On the other hand, TSECL authority of Ambassa collected fine Rs.1,74,950 as fine from 2014 to April 5 , 2015. The authority fined 53 unlawful customers including a section of poor people and multi -milliner trader of Ambassa Bazar.

According to sources, the richest trader of Ambassa Madhya Bazar Bidyut Roy is the owner of three storied building. He provided electric line to UCO Bank through illegal line. The officials of TSECL fined Rs. 10.000 against the trader for providing illegal power connection.

On the other hand TSECL authority fined Rs.3000 to Bipin Shil, Rs. 10,000 to Duryaroy Reang , Rs 5000 to Asim Pal , Rs.4000 to Kanti Debbarma, Rs.20,000 to Samar Debnath, Rs 20,000 to Shyamal Das, Rs.15000 to Pranesh Dey of Uttar Nalicherra , Rs. 9000 to Anjan Dey, Rs.10,000 to Swadesh Biswas of Kulai.