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

State Reports (Vol.-III)
Study on `Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
The efforts undertaken to reduce distribution losses entail replacement of faulty
meters, provision of metal boxes for housing meters and sealing, checking of meter
installation, etc. The tables below give the details of T&D loss and measures taken to
reduce the same.
T&D losses (%)
2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
35.53 34.61 35.90 30.90 30.64
Efforts for Reduction of T&D losses
Particulars Unit 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
Faulty meters replaced Lakh 4.59 6.83 7.8 10.78 9.55
Metal meter box provided Lakh 4.58 6.93 8.54 11.8 8.78
Connections sealed Lakh 9.23 10.85 11.44 13.89 11.95
Feeders bifurcated
Numbers No. 151 98 236 360 272
Line erected ckt km 759 473 1305 2046 1898
Amount spent Rs Lakh 1297 840 2478 3879 3970
DTCs brought at load centres
Numbers 580 648 650 1377 1619
Increase in kVA capacity kVA 31119 34247 34885 79880 73582
Amount spent Rs Lakh 565.49 607.46 617.92 1649.21 1868.09
Renovation of conductor on Lines
Length of replaced conductor ckt km 611.51 674.6 808.58 1995.48 2593.0
Amount spent Rs Lakh 216.57 160.54 332.78 1186.15 1130.74
No. of installations checked Lakh 18.74 19.67 21.48 20.75 21.52
Supplementary bills issued Lakh 1.67 2.04 2.14 1.53 1.58
Theft of energy No.x1000 60.66 79.64 107.98 101.17 96.24
Malpractice No.x1000 15.53 14.22 12.41 15.18 16.22
Other cases No.x1000 90.67 110.30 93.91 37.10 45.76
Amount assessed Rs crore 190.98 229.47 223.93 175.91 146.74
HT connections checked No. 763 439 267 539
CT operated meters checked No.x1000 16 19 22 26 21
LT capacitors checked Lakh 0.96 0.97 1.1 1.0
Vigilance Activities
The vigilance department is headed by an IPS officer of the rank of IGP, posted on
deputation from Government of Gujarat to GUVNL. In all, 70 vigilance squads
attached to individual circles work in this department. Five separate police stations
and five special courts have been set-up at Vadodara, Surat, Ahmedabad, Rajkot and
Bhavnagar. Certain percentage of consumer connections of different categories are
checked on a regular basis. The details are as follows:
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