AP Govt to act tough against power theft
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (INN): In order to minimize the losses and to provide financial relief to the DISCOMs, the Andhra Pradesh Government has emphasised the need for power utilities to go all out to prevent pilferage/theft of energy and commercial losses here after in the DISCOMs.
While fixing the responsibilities among the employee/officers of DISCOMs for reduction of commercial losses, the Energy Department has suggested top brass of DISCOMs to educate the general public/consumers the evil affects of the pilferage energy which in turn burdens the genuine consumers as well as DISCOMs.
Disclosing the above details, Energy Infrastructure & Investments Department Secretary Ajay Jain, while reviewing the performance of DISCOMs and initiatives taken for effective implementation of Power For All (PFA) prgramme, along with the Advisor Depart of EnergyRanganatham, with CMDs of DISCOMs H.Y.Dora and Seshagiri Babu, all Superintending Engineers/Operation of DISCOMs, through a teleconference has instructed the officials to make all out efforts to reduce the system losses to a level of single digit and eradicate theft of energy in the state.
The state cabinet, which met recently expressed its keenness in reduction of overall power distribution losses and to eradicate theft of energy in the state and assured full fledged cooperation and support to the power utilities to prevent pilferage of energy.
Jain stressed the need for setting up of special vigilance teams to make surprise checks and book cases in theft prone areas in the respective DISCOMs. The Joint Managing Director, Vigilance, APTRANSCO Sri. N Sanjay has also been instructed by Secretary to swing in special teams to conduct inspections in suspected areas and theft prone areas.
Keeping the importance of the issue, DPE and Vigilance wings of all operation circles in the DISCOMs are told to gear up and prepare time bound action plans and make all out efforts to prevent theft in their respective areas.
Jain stated that the entire commercial losses i.e, Theft of Energy, Unauthorized Use of electricity, improper metering, improper Meter Reading and billing practices have to be wiped out from the system.
News Posted: 24 December, 2014
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