Chief Minister Kamal Nath has said that power cuts will not be tolerated even when the State has surplus power. Government will not ignore any problems of the public if it is caused due to system-based reasons. He said that there should be no undeclared power cuts and trained team should repair technical faults immediately. The Chief Minister gave clear instructions that qualitative improvement must be seen in the electricity supply during the month of June.
Nath was talking to Energy Department officials at the Mantralaya in connection with power supply and current problems. Energy Minister Priyavrat Singh was present in the meeting.
The Chief Minister said that this is very serious that despite sufficient electricity in the State, power cuts are being made. He said that the Department of Energy will have to make radical changes in its overall functioning and arrangements. There should be no compromise with the quality in the purchase of power equipments. Better equipments should be purchased. For this, he issued instructions for power distribution, improvement and better training to the staff working at each level. He said that the power officials should go to those States where power supply management is being done in a better manner.
Nath said that in order to curb technical defects completely work should be done in a planned manner and improvements should be made in fixed time frame. The Chief Minister also said that regular maintenance of electrical wires with low pressure electric system and electric connections in the houses of the consumers should be ensured. He told to give prior information of power cuts for maintenance and to fix the time as per the convenience of the common consumer. The Chief Minister instructed to improve consumer services while increasing the capacity of the call centre.
Nath said that in order to improve power supply, the equipments used for electricity maintenance should be modernized and the electricity repairing process should be made more efficient. Nath said that all ground level officials should put in efforts and promptness to complete maintenance work in a planned manner by the month of June and ensure qualitative improvement in electricity supply.
Chief Secretary SR Mohanty, Additional Chief Secretary ICP Kesari and Managing Directors of power distribution companies along with senior officials were present in the meeting.