UP Power Corporation limited (UPPCl) has issued stern warning to power distribution companies (discoms) , all its subsidiaries to speed up the revenue recovery and distribution of bills to the consumers or face action.
UPPCl chairman Sanjay Agarwal presiding over the meeting of the Discoms here on Tuesday issued warning to director commercial of the Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam for the poor billing system in the company. The chairman warned the officers of Discom that if they fail to improve the billing system by February 10 then they will face the music. The chairman was particularly angry over the incompetence of the Discom for only billing of only 50 percent of the power consumers. He asked the officers of the discom to ensure billing of 100 percent consumers.
``If you can not serve the bill to the consumer then how are you going to meet your revenue target and improve the financial condition of the company’’, said the chairman. The officers of the discoms were told in categorical terms that the director commercial will be held accountable if they fail to ensure metering of the 100 percent consumers and 100 percent distribution of the power bills. Identifying the six laggard’s zonal chief engineers in revenue recovery Sanjay Agarwal asked the MDs of the Discoms to identify the underperforming executive engineers, assistant engineers and junior engineers in their respective discoms. The five zones failing to meet the revenue recovery target are Saharanpur, Faizabad, Gorakhpur, Basti, Allahabad and Azamgarh.
The chairman of the UPPCl also ordered inquiry into the delay in black listing of the
Billing agency in Gorakhpur. He asked the officials of the Purvanchal discom as to why the action has so far not been not taken against the agency despite the orders by the Chief engineer of Gorakhpur.
He said for the current fiscal 2015-16, UPPCl has fixed the revenue recovery target of Rs 32,519 crore and come what may this target has to be met. He also directed the officers of t5he discoms to expedite the work on rural electrification and construction of new 33/11 power distribution sub stations. He said from October this year the hours of power supply will be increased both in rural and urban areas.
Addressing the meeting MD of the UPPCl AP Mishra said `` we can raise the revenue only by ensuring quality billing to all category of power consumers and for this we will have to ensure that bills are served to the consumers on time.