The Power Corporation wants to increase not only the electricity rates but also the rates of new connections. It is demanding an increase of about 25 to 50 percent in the rate of domestic connections and 100 percent in the commercial rate. The Power Corporation has submitted a proposal to increase the rate of new connections along with an increase of about 45 percent in the electricity rates. The Regulatory Commission has also held hearings in all the corporations.

Now the sub-committee of the Regulatory Commission is going to meet soon. The rates will be discussed in this. In such a situation, the corporation management is continuously lobbying for increasing the rates of new connections in the sub-committee meeting. Two days ago, the corporation officials also discussed this issue in the Regulatory Commission.

It is known that BPL consumers in the state get a connection for about 1032 rupees. For taking a 1 kilowatt connection, one has to deposit about 1172 rupees in rural areas and about 1570 rupees in urban areas. If the connection is done more than 40 meters away, then about five to seven thousand rupees extra have to be deposited for the pole cost.

Energy Minister enquired about the situation from the nodal officers of the complaint cell
Energy Minister AK Sharma held a meeting of the nodal officers of the complaint cell of Power Corporation and Distribution Corporations (DISCOM) on Saturday. Inquired about the status of complaints in the virtual meeting. Instructed to dispose of pending cases as soon as possible.

In the virtual meeting, the Energy Minister asked the nodal officers what kind of complaints are coming in more. Officials said that complaints related to transformers and supply come repeatedly. The Energy Minister said that consumer satisfaction is the priority of the department. Instructed the officials to ensure quick disposal of all pending complaints on priority basis. The Energy Minister clarified that any kind of laxity in the quality of consumer service is not acceptable. While fixing departmental responsibility, continuous monitoring will be done.

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Electricity Corporation officials are citing non-completion of technical works on time as the reason for the ban on smart prepaid meters on new connections. According to corporation officials, on September 12, the agency installing the smart prepaid meters reported technical problem in data feeding of the new meters.

The agency representatives said that the work of integration between the electricity corporation’s Jhatpat portal and the meter agency’s portal has been stuck in the middle. Due to this, technical problems were cited in many other works including the billing system and meter feeding on new connections.

After this, new electricity connections have been started on normal meters in Harungala, Izzatnagar, CBganj, Subhashnagar areas. Superintending Engineer Amba Prasad Vashisht said that as soon as the integration work on the Jhatpat portal is completed, the work of installing prepaid smart on new connections will be started.

Power failure in Kila area and Sun City

Due to line fault and repair work, power supply was affected in areas like Veer Savarkar Nagar, Gayatripuri, Mithilapuri etc. operated from Kila area and Sun City sub-centre on Thursday. Whereas in the rural area, power supply was affected in Thiriya Nizamat Khan area from 12:45 pm to 4 pm.

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