The Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Alok Ranjan has issued directions to all District Magistrates and Officers of electricity department to conduct a joint campaign for mitigating power line losses by 15% and to regularise the irregular power connections along with installing the electricity meter to augment the revenue recovery. He added that participation of common public should be ensured in awareness drive for reducing the power line losses and thereby increasing the hours of power supply in the area concerned.
He said that the drive should be started from July 21 in presence of nodal officers nominated by U.P. Power Corporation (UPPCl) for the 100 Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP) towns. He said that nominated Nodal officers should be present on 6th and 21st August and 6th September also on the site for monitoring progress of campaign in their area to ensure successful implementation of campaign. Chief Secretary further said that it would be the responsibility of concerned Junior Engineers and Assistant Engineers to ensure feeder-wise intensive checking and validation of the G.I.S. Data provided by M/s HCl to bring the new consumers on G.I.S system.
Chief Secretary was giving the important instructions to the district magistrates and officials of power department in Yojana Bhawan through Videoconferencing. He added that district magistrates should ensure arrangement of land for 33/11 Kv power sub-stations on priority. He instructed the concerned district magistrates to organize urgent meetings with the engineers of their areas to prepare detailed action plan prior to the campaign. He said that district magistrates should ensure regular monitoring of the progress during the drive and to provide full support at their level. He said that along with providing the comprehensive security during the campaign in the sensitive areas, district magistrates would be principally responsible for resolution of any untoward incident. He said that district Magistrate of those district, where the line losses drop to less than 15%, would be rewarded through a citation letter.
Shri Ranjan said that in view of crucial role of power sector in the development of state, the state government had instructed to supply power to the district headquarters, tehsil headquarters for 22 hours from October 2016, and for 16 hours to the rural areas. He said that in the selected cities, 11 Kv feeder-wise, transformer-wise connections should be physically verified in selected cities and GIS data should also be regularly updated. He has directed to install meters at the premises of all consumers and to ensure replacement of defective meters. He has said that wherever required, electricity load should be enhanced and bills should be corrected to recover the due revenue. He has instructed for online ledgerisation of such electricity consumers, whose connections had been released but bills were not being issued due to some reasons.
In the videoconferencing Principal Secretary, Energy, Shri Sanjay Agarwal, Principal Secretary, Planning, Dr. Anoop Chandra Pandey and other senior officers were present.
In order to encourage entrepreneurship in the State, the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Alok Ranjan has issued directions for more effective implementation of Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme to benefit 60,000 youth during the current financial year. He said that industrial growth, creation of new products in Khadi village industry is important for socio-economic development.
The Chief Secretary was chairing the meeting of State level Monitoring Committee to review the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP). He said that concerted efforts should be made for generation of more employment opportunities in the State. Under the Khadi & Village Industries scheme, he said that scheduled caste and scheduled tribe beneficiaries should be benefited in backward rural areas through agriculture based industry, food processing and traditional industries.
Ranjan said that during the current financial year, grant of Rs 175 crore against Rs 700 crore loan amount from banks would be given to these entrepreneurs with target of providing 60,000 jobs. He said that established units would also get facility of participation in expositions under backward-forward linkage along with linking them to exports.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary, MSME – Shri Sudhir Garg, Commissioner and Director, Industries – Shri Venketshwar lu, Director, Khadi & Village Industries – Shri S P Singh along with other officials.