Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) chairman-cum-managing director A Venu Prasad and Director Distribution DPS Grewal on Friday appreciated the services and efforts put in by its distribution officers.
Grewal, during an interaction with more than 250 SDOs of distribution via video conferencing session, appreciated the role and efforts of all distribution officers for providing scheduled uninterrupted power supply to agriculture consumers and continuous and reliable power supply to all other categories of consumers in spite of COVID-19 pandemic.
Grewal said that each sub division office can play an important role because that is the first interface stage between consumer and PSPCL. He stressed upon improvement in performance of subdivisions which in turn will further improve performance of PSPCL as a whole.
He said that keeping in view the COVID-19, distribution officers should play a proactive role and educate the applicants to adopt digital mode for applying for new connections, supply related grievances or other issues, payment of Electricity bills.
Sharing details on power theft, Grewal said that distribution losses are mainly due to theft of electricity in Punjab, and thus the distribution officers should plan mass raids on such feeders where losses are higher.
