To phase out the old electric meters, the Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited (UPCl) would purchase 30,000 new meters and 5,000 pre paid meters. It was decided in 66 Board meeting of the UPCl which was held here on Monday.
In last financial year, the UPCl undertook a massive drive to replace defective meters and replaced 1.77 lakh such meters. In this year too the corporation is planning to the put meters at all unmetered supplies.
The board members appreciated the grievance redressal mechanism adopted by the SDO of Jaspur and said that the behavior of the employees of this office was found to be good towards the consumers.
The offices of Kotdwar and Roorkee (Urban) were also complimented for the good works while the office of Roorkee (Rural) was rated worst by the officials in the meeting.
It was decided in the meeting that the Junior Engineers of the Corporation working in the Project areas should be provided 30 liters of petrol. On the issue of incentives to the employees of the UPCl the board decided that the matter would be studied and the offices doing best would be rewarded.
The board meeting was attended by Board Directors
Jl Bajaj and CM Vasudev, President UPCl Uma Kant Panwar, Managing Director UPCl Sumer Singh Yadav, Director Projects JK Verma and other senior officers.