To discuss the progress of Electricity Bill Collection System at Common Service Centres, E-governance of India ltd. (CSC-SPV) a meeting was called upon by Subhash Kumar, Chairman, Uttarakhand Electricity Regulatory Commission (UERC) Chairman Subhash Kumar on Friday. During meeting it has been decided that on May 16 Chief Engineer (Commercial), UPCl and State Head, CSC-SPV will jointly finalise & prepare agreement papers to be signed between UPCl & CSC-SPV. Thereafter, authorised representatives of UPCl & CSC-SPV will sign the agreement in the next week positively.
It was informed by UPCl that existing network of collection centres of UPCl is such that only one collection centre exist in each block i.e. around 95 collection centres in the State. Whereas, representatives of CSC-SPV informed that as of now there are 2,000 active CSC centres which translates to one Common Service Centre per six villages for collection of electricity bills.
This network of CSCs is going to provide immense relief to the consumers particularly in rural areas who will not have to travel long distance to deposit payment of their electricity bills. The meeting was attended by SS Yadav, MD, UPCl, Neeraj Sati, Secretary, UERC, Krishna Kumar, State Head, CSC-SPV, Prabhat Dimri, Director (Technical), UERC, SK Tamta, Chief Engineer (Commercial), UPCl & Sanjay Mathur, Consultant, Treasuries, Pension and Entitlements.