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Two ward chairs arrested in Kavre, Saptari for electricity theft

Kathmandu, June 15

Teams deployed from the Nepal Electricity Authority to monitor electricity theft in various parts of the country on Thursday arrested two people’s representatives, one each in Kavre and Saptari districts, for their alleged involvement in the crime.

Narayan Lamsal and Ramananda Chaudhary, chairmen of Mandan Deupur Municipality-7 of Kavre district and Tirhut Rural Municipality-5 of Saptari district respectively, were arrested from their areas.

Earlier, a meeting of Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, Energy Minister Barsha Man Pun, Home Secretary Prem Kumar Rai, NEA Managing Director Kul Man Ghising and Nepal Police Chief Sarbendra Khana on Wednesday had decided to launch a special programme against electricity theft. Following the decision, district administration offices and district units of the NEA had launched a joint drive to control power leakage.

It has been learned that both the arrests were made during operations of such joint committees.

According to the NEA data, around 20 per cent electricity is leaked currently. It has set the target of reducing the leakage amount to 15 per cent in next three years.

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