Under the rule of Chhattisgarh Electricity Duty Rules 1949, the obligation of each factory to submit annual statement of Form ‘H’ and Form ‘J’ has been abolished by the State Government in the interest of business and citizens. This decision was taken in the cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel today. Abolition of both the above formats and simplification of draft rules regarding annual statement of electricity will not affect the recovery of electricity duty. With this decision of the cabinet, the process of submitting the annual electricity statement will be simplified for the factories. Due to which compliance load will be reduced and electricity related information and recovery will also not be affected. It is worth mentioning that under Form ‘H’ annual statement of electrical power supplied or sold within the premises of factories is included. In the above form, Form H is used for arranging lighting in all the departments of the factories and for maintaining the measurement of the electric power used for the fans used for humidification in the factory. Since the electricity used by the factory is supplied by the electricity distribution company of the state, metering and electricity duty is recovered through the electricity bill issued by the distribution company and as per the current prevailing system, the consumers will be given separate form ‘H’. ‘ The details are not being made available to the Chief Electrical Inspectorate. The arrangement is in vogue to submit the information about the production and consumption of electricity by the producers to the Chief Electrical Inspectorate by making an entry in the other form ‘G’ of the Chhattisgarh Electricity Duty Rules, 1949. Through which electricity charges are collected. In the above situation, Form H ceases to be useful. Therefore, it was decided to delete Form H in order to reduce the various compliance burden among citizens and business. The said form contains the name of the consumer, address, class of exemption, form B, C, D, E, F in which the monthly account is maintained, details of the method of measurement, weight which has been combined with the exempted connector on which duty is payable etc. details are included. Presently monthly statement showing the total number of units of electricity duty sold or supplied by the distributor or producer to the consumer or consumed by himself or his employees through Form ‘G’ by the consumers in Form G The information of ‘J’ is included and the electricity fee is collected by the Chief Electrical Inspectorate after obtaining information in Form G every month. Information about such units on which electricity duty is not payable is also included in Part-II of Form ‘G’. Therefore, on deletion of Form ‘J’, the information and recovery related to electricity duty will not be affected. Therefore, it has been decided to delete it. Like this:Like Loading… Continue Reading
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