Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Jan 18: In a shock to the Mechanical Irrigation Department Shadipora Division in Bandipora district, the Power Development Department (PDD) has billed it with over Rs 34.50 crore for October 2020.
The bill that has been sent to the department by the PDD addressed to Baba Jangi Flood and Irrigation Pump Station which is located in Shilvat Sumbal amounts Rs 34,63,42,184 cr precisely.
While the PDD itself seems to be in a dilemma about the veracity of the bill that has been dispatched to Mechanical Irrigation Department’s Division in Bandipora, it, however, maintains that there might be some technical errors in the bill and at the same time stated that the department might owe the sum to the PDD.
“Whatever it is, we are ascertaining the factual situation,” an official of the PDD said.
The official also said that the majority of the Government departments are defaulters and Mechanical Irrigation Department is one among them.
On the other side, the officials of the Mechanical Irrigation Department Shadipora Division have maintained that they do not get such a huge bill from the PDD.
They said that normally, they get Rs 2 to 3 crore bill annually for whole Division and that they are in touch with the PDD to see what has gone wrong.
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