Lucknow: Even as the UP administration is enforcing a strict ban on the illegal slaughter of animals in the state, the Yogi Adityanath government has firmed up plans to go all out against those involved in power theft.

The Adityanath government has started a state-wide campaign against power theft. On the radar are areas that see maximum power theft and also those people, supposedly, did not pay electricity bills due to political patronage during the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party regime.

The government's seriousness on the issue of improving power supply can gauged from the fact that state's Energy Minister Srikant Sharma has met Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal twice in the fortnight since the new government was formed in the state.

The UP government has also announced that all below poverty line (BPL) households in the urban and rural areas of the state will get free power connection while those above poverty line (APL) will be given 100 per cent financing option with easy EMIs.

These electricity connections would be given without any discrimination on caste or religious lines and would be based on the latest Socio-Economic Census data, it said.

Also, an amnesty scheme would be given to all those households and commercial connections that want to take legal electricity connections.