The recently launched “Mhara Gaon Jagmag Scheme”, started to provide sustainable 24X7 power supply to rural consumers at par with the urban consumers, is getting good response in all the rural areas of the State, Nitin Yadav, Managing Director, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) said on Wednesday.
He said the scheme which is rolled out in phases in all the selected feeders all over the State has shown a remarkable increase in the billing efficiency and collection efficiency in these areas.
Giving details, he listed several villages spread over rural Assembly constituencies which have achieved more than 70 per cent billing efficiency in the month of October, 2015. This billing efficiency is at an average almost doubled in these areas as compared to the previous figures before the inception of the scheme.
Similarly, a lot of villages have achieved more than 100 per cent collection efficiency during the month of October, 2015.
“The remarkable achievement of these parameters has paved the way for providing round the clock power supply to the consumers of these areas,” Yadav said. He appealed to all the consumers of the State to come forward and participate in support of the scheme, including relocation of meters outside the premises, replacement of worn out cables with Aerial Bunched Cable etc. so that they would also be benefited by the scheme.