Tahir Bhat
Jammu
Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday revealed that Commercial establishment/government offices has liabilities of Rs 19557.66 Crores in power development department.
In a written reply to BJP MLA Gagan Bhagat, the government said that in Srinagar the government departments except hospitals and Education department owe Rs 18934 crore to power department.
The liability pending with hospitals and Education department in Srinagar is Rs 49.81 crore while higher education department owes Rs 54.16 crore to the power department.
The government also said that commercial establishments in Srinagar owe Rs 13.38 crore to the power department.
Interestingly, in Jammu district, the liability pending with commercial and government departments is Rs 505.54 crore amongst which the commercial establishments owe Rs 36.73 crore to the power department.
The government also revealed that government departments except Hospital and Education department owe Rs 431.13 crores to power department in Jammu district.
The government said that Home department headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti owes Rs 5201 lakhs to power department in Srinagar district.
In Jammu, the Home department owes Rs 401 lakh to the power department and power development corporation and PDD itself owes Rs 239 lakh and in Srinagar, the Power Development Corporation owes Rs 23.86 lakh to the power department.
