To ensure quality, reliable, and uninterrupted power supply to consumers of all categories for upcoming summer or paddy season-2021, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has chalked out a comprehensive plan besides its efficacious implementation.
Taking stock of the pre-preparations during a meeting with senior officers of the North Zone, PSPCL chairman-cum-managing director A Venu Prasad has directed the officers to ensure that the repair or maintenance works of transmission lines or grids, substations and transformers would be completed at the earliest.
Prasad also instructed that overloaded transmission lines or grid substations would also be de-loaded on priority basis to avert any inconvenience to consumers regarding supply position or any other issue etc.
CMD also pointed out that the directions had already been issued to the field officers to complete the developmental works by January 15, 2021, to solve the problems of transmission lines or transformers and tree cuttings well in time.
Prasad also said that the overloaded transformers supplying power to tubewells should be de-loaded in advance without any delay before the ensuing paddy season to facilitate consumers in rural areas so that smooth power supply could be ensured to consumers especially the farmers.
“During VDS scheme for AP (agriculture pumpsets) consumers, the overloaded transformers would be augmented before December 31, so
that the percentage of damaged transformers could be reduced,” he said.
He also emphasised the officers to expedite the recovery of arrears of bills from erring consumers since PSPCL is a commercial organisation, which requires financial resources on day-to-day basis for providing reliable and uninterrupted electricity to 96 lakh consumers in the State.