Haryana Power Distribution Corporations namely Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam have earned highest-ever revenue of over Rs 1,450 crore, in October 2013 registering an increase by about 60 in last one year.
Haryana Principal Secretary (Power) Devender Singh said that the reasons of sharp increase in revenue realisation have been the increased power supply and more efforts made by the officials of the Nigams.
He said that the component of employee cost in the total cost of power supply in Haryana was lowest in India. The employee cost in Haryana is merely 42 to 45 paise per unit. Singh said that there are tremendous possibilities to reduce the aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses and considerable savings can be made simply by reducing these losses.
High technical losses in the system are primarily due to inadequate system improvement works, unplanned extensions of the distribution lines, overloading of the system elements like transformers and conductors and lack of adequate reactive power support.
The commercial losses are mainly due to under billing, accumulation of reading, non-payment of bills, theft & pilferages. He said that to overcome the mismatch between transmission and distribution system, the discoms have prepared a three-year development plan under which the capacity of the system will be augmented by adding new sub-stations and network of lines and segregating and maintaining the overloaded feeders.