Can Corruption be the Reason of Frequent Power Cuts in Zirakpur!?

 In June 2020 month there was an article in Tribune which stated that electricity board, PSPL, was confident there would be no power cuts in the next four months. Here is the link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/no-scheduled-power-cuts-in-zirakpur-for-4-months-100605

But on 8th august, there was a 5 hours power cut in the day and then frequent power cuts whole night. The situation has not changed because it was grim in the July month too. I wonder what are the reasons!! The article states that all the infrastructure is in good conditions after all the necessary repairs. PSPL official is promising no power cuts for the next months, in the article, but nothing has changed. 

( Above Image shows a Screenshot of a notification by PSPCL App which notified of a power cut from 9 am to 5 pm, on 10th Aug, 2020 in Zirakpur area.)

Maybe there are certain infrastructure lacks. But there can be other reasons too, maybe corruption!? It is just a wild guess, and no one individual is intended to be targetted in this article. Any names upcoming in this article is merely taken for illustration purpose only. No personal allegations are made. 

 Please let me explain. There are more than dozen of housing societies in Zirakpur, and there are hundreds of individual house connections in each of the societies. These connections are taken by individual owners who pay monthly or quarterly charges, as asked by PSPCL, to the state supplier. There are many societies maintained by the respective builders who also are the constructor of them.  Apart from the main PSPCL electricity connections there are back up connections from the generators given to the houses with their separate individual meters. Diesel generators are switched on whenever there is a main supply cut. Electric power consumed from these generators is charged from the house owners at certail profit margins.

Generally builders charge more than 18/- rupees per unit of electricity, while the cost of generation of electricity with DG is generally 16/- rupees per unit or lower. 

They definitely earn some margins on these connections. For example Leafstone Luxury Apartments on Pabhat road has 182 flats. So if an individual consumes monthly 20 units of this back up power, the back up power charges are 18×20 = 360 rupees. Total revenue from 182 flats = 182 × 360 = 65520 rupees monthly. It is just a wild guess, the amount can vary up and down.

 There are many small new builders in Zirakpur like M D Builder( constructor of Leafstone Apartments) who are treading onto the completion step of their first or 2nd project. For them even such low revenues matter a lot. 

Now let's take the guess- what if these contractors/builders bribe the electricity department executives a monthly amount of 2000 rupees each? If there are 20 such builders, the monthly amount becomes 40000/- rupees. That is a possibilty. 

To all the honest officials out there reading this article-- please think about it and act fast! These electricity cuts are everyday happenings, and instead of any improvement I have seen a year-on-year rise since lasr year. Nothing improves here in Zirakpur. It is strange how this place is so much difficult to live than our very neighbor UT Chandigarh. 

Thanks!