Report of Indian Institute of Public Administration ... - Ministry of Power

Directives Issued by the Commission
State Reports (Vol.-III)
Study on `Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
The Commission has provided the following key directives to the DISCOMs to
effectively implement the reform process. A summary of the same has been provided
below:
Receivables
Financial
Management
• All receivables accounts shall be computerised and detailed audit of
receivables shall be undertaken; so that precise amount of consumer-wise
position with age-wise break-up separately for sale of power, delayed
payment surcharge, municipal tax and electricity duty with current and
old arrears may be known.
• To submit a report giving details of the action taken in each case to
recover arrears from the consumers having arrear above Rs 1 lakh.
(Directions given in 11.8.2001 and 20.8.2003 orders)
• To physical verify all the fixed assets, particularly the fixed assets created
out of the consumers’ contribution. (Direction given in 16.8.2002 order)
• To reconcile the inter-company accounts between the transmission,
distribution and generation companies. (Direction given in 16.8.2002
order)
Metering • The Commission directed the D&RS licensee to submit detailed metering
plan for 100 per cent metering in the State. (Direction given on
16.8.2002)
• The Commission further directed that 100 per cent metering be
completed by June 2005 as per Section 55 of the EA, 2003. (Direction
given on 29.1.2004)
• Besides consumers’ metering, the licensee should also complete 100 per
cent metering at feeders and distribution transformers for energy audit
purpose.
• To put MDI meters at unmetered agriculture pump-set consumers.
Performance
improvement
Technical
issues
(Direction given in 16.8.2002 order)
• To investigate the causes of high damage rate of distribution
transformers. To submit separate data for urban and rural areas.
(Direction given in 20.8.2003 and 18.4.2005 orders)
• To carry out load survey for the consumers who pay on MMC basis or on
average basis for a long time. (Direction given in 11.8.2001 order)
• To establish the computerised State-of-the-Art Area Load Dispatch
Centre.
• To undertake activity of consumer indexing and Geographical
Information Systems (GIS) mapping. (Direction given in 18.4.2005
order)
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