PATIALA: Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) and Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited (PSTCL) have switched to new logos from Thursday. The two new corporations were formed after the restructuring of Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) on April 16, 2010 and the need for a separate identity was felt. Designs were ...

AMRITSAR: The city police have arrested a man for allegedly impersonating as a Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) junior engineer. Inspector Nirlep Singh from C division police, where the matter was reported, said family members of a doctor, who runs a clinic at Gate Hakima, nabbed the culprit while he was ...

PATIALA: A three-member high­ powered committee, comprising the Punjab Chief Secretary, Power Secretary and a power sector expert, on Friday scrutinized applications for the posts of director and chairman-cum-managing director in the newly set up Powercom and Transco. According to Chief Secretary S.C. Aggarwal, a final decision on the incumbents ...

RUPNAGAR: A keen contest is on the cards for the top posts of Punjab Powercom and Punjab Transco with the state government receiving 165 applications for the posts of man­ aging director-cum-chairman and board of directors of the two new successor companies of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB). May ...

PATIALA: The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has chargesheeted 12 senior executive engineers posted as in-charge of Rajpura power division at different times since 2004. The action follows the revelation of heavy power theft by an industrial unit in Rajpura, R.K. Welds, in a raid carried out in February. According to the ...

PATIALA: Farmers who left their land empty for four thermal­ power plants will get free and on-priority electricity connections for running tube-wells. The permanent members on the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) took the decision unanimously on Friday on the proposal of member (administration) Gurbhachan Singh Bachhi. The government acquired about 5,900 ...

PATIALA: The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) on Monday signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Himalayan Renewable Energy Ltd, which is setting up a mini hydro plant of 600 KW capacities on the Bathinda branch canal at Talewal village. The PSEB will procure the entire energy generated from the ...

PATIALA: Following the detection of heavy power theft at a steel­ wire manufacturing unit in Rajpura, six executive engineers of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) are in the line of fire. According to a report sent to the headquarters by the Enforcement Wing of the power board, the officers at ...

PATIALA: The Enforcement Wing of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) in a raid on Tuesday discovered heavy theft of power at a steel-wire manufacturing unit, R.K. Welds, in Rajpura, and imposed a penalty of Rs 2.06 crore. This was the highest ever penalty imposed by the board. PSEB sources said the ...

CHANDIGARH: Holding that the fund-starved Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) must have a mechanism to check unnecessary litigations, Justice Ranjit Singh of the High Court has dismissed the petition filed by the Board against one of its employees and directed it to pay Rs 20,000 as cost for filing such ...

PATIALA: Unable to identify other options to generate resources, the cash-strapped Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has eaten into the general provident fund (GPF) collected from its employees over the past few years. The amount, which is to the tune Of Rs 1,700 crore, has been spent on power purchases, new ...

PATIALA: The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) on Tuesday signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Green Planet Energy Private Ltd. for a 14-MW plant in Talwalldi Rai village, near Raikot, in Ludhiana district. PSEB member G.S. Sra, who signed the agreement with company executive director Madhav Hari Sane, said the ...

IN RED Asks govt to clear Rs 1,039-cr subsidy immediately; promised Rs 325 cr within this week PATIALA: Fearing stalling of all its operations, the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has sounded a warning to the state government to clear the pending subsidy for free power to farmers and domestic consumers ...