The UP Rajya Vidyut Upbhokta Parishad has demanded a high-level probe into the UP Energy Company Ltd (UPPCL) reducing the ‘efficiency assure’ quantity for personal companies which are chosen to execute the sensible pay as you go metering challenge within the state, from 10% to only 3%.
“The UPPCL board of administrators, in its assembly in July, had accredited the proposal for 10% efficiency assure however that very same has now been decreased to three%…” parishad chairman Avdhesh Kumar Verma stated, in a press release demanding chief minister Yogi Adityanath to order an inquiry into the matter.
He stated sensible metering was a brand new challenge and ran the chance of failing. “In such a state of affairs, the efficiency financial institution assure ought to have been elevated and never lowered to make the companies extra accountable to shoppers,” he stated.
‘Cease harassing shoppers’: Sharma
Power minister AK Sharma has directed the UPPCL personnel to convey a few change of their work tradition and conduct. Holding a gathering in Shakti Bhawan right here on Tuesday, he warned them towards harassing shoppers.
“The tendency of first encouraging electrical energy theft and taking motion later have to be finished away with,” he stated. Sharma additionally requested officers to take steps to efficiently meet the challenges being confronted in guaranteeing easy energy provide to shoppers