The denizens of Hazaribagh electricity board area are to get better electricity service in the days to come. Measures have been taken to avoid major faults which disrupt the power supply for long duration.
About 30 vacuum circuit breakers have already been fitted and some other infrastructural facilities have been added to ensure avoidance of incidence of major faults in the area. It was informed by Ramesh Thakur, General Manager Hazaribagh area of Jharkhand Urja Vitaran Nigam limited (JUVNl).
Talking to the media persons on Wednesday, Thakur said that the part B of RADRP scheme is going to start very soon. "In part A, we worked on making our substations more efficient and now in part B we will start underground cabling which will help in providing better service to our consumers," he said. A few days ago MP Jayant Sinha has instructed the GM to speed-up the work of RAPDRP so that the electricity consumers of Hazaribagh area could get uninterrupted power supply.
GM Ramesh Thakur claimed that the power supply condition in Hazaribagh area has become better. On Vijaya Dashami, October 22, the denizens got more than 23 hours power supply.
"Currently we are supplying power to our consumers for about 22 hours daily," he added. When asked about tripping of power even in little rain, he said that big trees are the main hurdle and when it rains usually power gets tripped.
Thakur said, "To keep the branches of trees away from our wires we have procured a special van now and in the days to come we will keep eye on such trees which can cause tripping of power".
GM claimed that since his joining the revenue collection of Hazaribagh area has increased. He said that in May 2015 the revenue collection was 23.88 crores while in September 2015 it was 25.54 crores. Thakur who came here as GM in June 2015 has made an appeal to the consumers to pay their electricity bills regularly because it helps the board in providing better service to them.