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

Billing and Collection
State Reports (Vol.-III)
Study on `Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
The billing system is computerised. All bills are issued on the basis of meter reading
except for agricultural consumers where it is based on HP of connected load. The
periodicity of billing is as follows:
Periodicity of Billing
Particulars Periodicity of billing
HT consumers Monthly
Industrial consumers
Monthly for consumers having more than 10 HP load and bimonthly
for others. In some areas monthly billing is also introduced.
Residential Bimonthly. Monthly billing is introduced in some areas.
Commercial Bimonthly. Monthly billing is introduced in some areas.
Agricultural Bimonthly
Railways Monthly
All LT consumers are billed from 20 th till 10 th of the next month and HT consumers
are billed on 1 st of the subsequent month. The billing activity is generally on time and
instances of delay are rare. Around 90 per cent of billed amount is collected within the
due date. Billing efficiency has consistently been 100 per cent and collection
efficiency has been over 99 per cent in the past two years and 100 per cent in 2005-06.
Energy audit is conducted every month as per norms.
No revenue is foregone through concessional tariff but made available by Government
of Gujarat in the form of subsidy. The details of subsidy provided by Government of
Gujarat to GEB are given below:
Details of Subsidy
(Rs crore)
Particulars 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
Subsidy booked 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100
Domestic 74 90 92 0 0 0
Agricultural 331 663 684 619 480 478
Water Works 84 82 80 82 100 100
Arrears of Revenue and Debt
Details of arrears of revenue and long-term debt and the position in respect of cases
and amounts locked up in disputes are given below. Through the medium of Lok
Adalats, a total of 1.11 lakh cases were settled between the period 1998 and October
2005, realising an amount of Rs 50.82 crore. 65,708 cases involving Rs 865.79 crore
are still pending in legal dispute.
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