Participants of the Power Department’s meeting in Kohima on January 20. (DIPR Photo)
Our Correspondent
Kohima | January 20
The Power Department has decided to complete the commissioning of the 1st phase pre-paid metering in Kohima town by February 2022 with special emphasis on the already installed meters.
This was resolved during a meeting of the State Level Special Revenue Team of Power Department led by Mohammed Ali Shihab ,IAS, Additional Secretary, Power Department at Kohima Electrical Division on January 20 with the Executive Engineer, SDOs and JEs of the division and implementing agency of pre-paid meters M/s Universal Power Solutions, Kohima.
It was also decided to realise revenue by way of intensive disconnection drive of defaulting consumers including government offices, to review the action plans for revenue improvement on a weekly basis, and to strictly monitor daily attendance of staffs
For the convenience of the consumers, the timing for operating the cash counters has been extended up to 3:00 PM from the existing timing of 2:00 PM on all working days till March 31.
Earlier, Executive Engineer Rukongutuo Suohu informed about the improvement in revenue collection during the month of December/January 2022 due to the initiative of the Special Team and thanked everyone for the efforts.
The Additional Secretary, while interacting with the officers, thanked the EE (E), Kohima and all the officers, meter readers, bill assistants; and asked everyone to expedite revenue improvement activities in order to achieve the desired target.
The committee reviewed the overall revenue improvement activities till January 15 and disconnection drive of defaulting consumers including government offices in Kohima for non-payment of bills. Also, the status of implementation of pre-paid metering in Kohima was reviewed.
