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State energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav announced in the state assembly that the electricity department would hold block-level camps across the state on the second Saturday of every month, where problems of power consumers, including those using power from Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture feeder, would be resolved.

Yadav said the problems of power consumers regarding inflated electricity bills or those related to farmers, including demand of replacing burnt transformers of the agriculture feeder, would be looked into at the camps for amicable solution.

The energy minister made the announcements while replying to the House debate on his department’s budgetary demand to the tune of Rs 11,536.83 crore for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The opposition BJP that had moved the cut motion walked out of the House.