PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asked the Bihar State Power Holding Company Limited (BSPHCL) to ensure installation of smart prepaid electricity meters in all households across the state by August 15, 2020 so that when he goes to seek votes in the next assembly polls, people don’t come with old meters and complaints that they have been getting inflated power bills.
The CM asked BSPHCL chairman-cum-managing director Pratyaya Amrit to complete the task of installing prepaid meters by August 15 next year at any cost.
Addressing an energy department programme after inaugurating power projects worth Rs 576.20 crore and flagging off the commencement of work on projects worth Rs 116.54 crore at Adhiveshan Bhavan here, Nitish said though the state’s energy department has achieved several milestones since 2006, people getting inflated power bills is still a problem.
“Installation of pre-paid electricity meters is very necessary to end the problem of inflated or miscalculated bills. Once prepaid meters are installed, there will be no complaints regarding bills,” he said.
Nitish further asked the BSPHCL officials to complete the tasks of replacing rickety electrical wires and providing power connection to “each interested farmers” from the agriculture feeders by the end of December this year.
“Once all farmers start getting power for use in their fields, there will be sharp decline in the input cost of farming because an area which is irrigated by diesel at a cost of Rs 100, will be irrigated by through electricity at just Rs five,” the CM said.
He also asked the BSPHCL officials to give priority to provide smart prepaid meters to the motor pumps being installed under the ‘Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal’ scheme of the state government.
Nitish also launched a single window help desk – Suvidha – for the convenience of the power consumers under Patna Electric Supply Undertaking (PESU). “Such help desks will be opened in all other electric supply divisions after successful implementation in Patna urban areas,” an energy department official told TOI.
The CM lauded the BSPHCL’s quick response in sending a team of power engineers to Odisha to restore power supply in Cuttack and Puri after Fani cyclone. A short film on restoration work of devastated power infrastructure in Odisha was also shown on the occasion. Nitish handed over appreciation letters to 14 engineers who had participated in the restoration work in Odisha.
The BSPHCL had sent its two teams of engineers to Odisha after CM Naveen Patnaik had made a request to his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar.
Amrit, in his welcome address, talked about different achievements made by the power companies in Bihar. Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi and energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav also addressed the event.
The CM asked BSPHCL chairman-cum-managing director Pratyaya Amrit to complete the task of installing prepaid meters by August 15 next year at any cost.
Addressing an energy department programme after inaugurating power projects worth Rs 576.20 crore and flagging off the commencement of work on projects worth Rs 116.54 crore at Adhiveshan Bhavan here, Nitish said though the state’s energy department has achieved several milestones since 2006, people getting inflated power bills is still a problem.
“Installation of pre-paid electricity meters is very necessary to end the problem of inflated or miscalculated bills. Once prepaid meters are installed, there will be no complaints regarding bills,” he said.
Nitish further asked the BSPHCL officials to complete the tasks of replacing rickety electrical wires and providing power connection to “each interested farmers” from the agriculture feeders by the end of December this year.
“Once all farmers start getting power for use in their fields, there will be sharp decline in the input cost of farming because an area which is irrigated by diesel at a cost of Rs 100, will be irrigated by through electricity at just Rs five,” the CM said.
He also asked the BSPHCL officials to give priority to provide smart prepaid meters to the motor pumps being installed under the ‘Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal’ scheme of the state government.
Nitish also launched a single window help desk – Suvidha – for the convenience of the power consumers under Patna Electric Supply Undertaking (PESU). “Such help desks will be opened in all other electric supply divisions after successful implementation in Patna urban areas,” an energy department official told TOI.
The CM lauded the BSPHCL’s quick response in sending a team of power engineers to Odisha to restore power supply in Cuttack and Puri after Fani cyclone. A short film on restoration work of devastated power infrastructure in Odisha was also shown on the occasion. Nitish handed over appreciation letters to 14 engineers who had participated in the restoration work in Odisha.
The BSPHCL had sent its two teams of engineers to Odisha after CM Naveen Patnaik had made a request to his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar.
Amrit, in his welcome address, talked about different achievements made by the power companies in Bihar. Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi and energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav also addressed the event.
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