JAMMU, March 14 -- The Administrative Council which met here under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha approved the extension of Amnesty Scheme-2022 up to March 31, 2025, in favor of domestic consumers of electricity.

Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor; Atal Dulloo, Chief Secretary, J&K; Mandeep Kumar Bhandari, Principal Secretary to Lieutenant Governor attended the meeting.

The scheme provides for waving off 100% interest/surcharge on outstanding principal amount. In UT of J&K, the domestic consumer category comprises over 86% of JKPDD consumers and around 50% of total energy consumption in the UT is from the said category of the consumers.

However, almost 30% of these Domestic consumers (approxim...