Rajkot, DeshGujarat

Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Limited(PGVCL) which looks after supply of power in Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat has successfully uncovered electricity theft worth Rs. 150 crore in last 10 months. PGVCL checks those feeders that show maximum line loss and conducts checking.

The highest power theft was caught in the month of September which was worth Rs. 2,126.57 lakh.

Due to poor monsoon, power theft in agriculture sector has increased. In some pockets of Saurashtra region including Rajkot, PGVCL is installing ABC(Aerial Branch Cable) which is coated by a protection layer against power theft.

Those involve in power theft use various tricks. They attach magnet with rotating meter, they bypass phase and nuetral in digital meter, they connect bar with open power cable, they mistreat a transformer. In one case in Kutch, a mobile power theft unit was captured.