CURATED BY – GAURAV  SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, District Magistrate Manish Bansal held a meeting with the officials of the electricity department to ensure uninterrupted power supply by eliminating the hindrance in power supply and to increase revenue by recovering electricity bills. He said that the electricity officer should prepare a list of defaulters of more than 1 lakh rupees, defaulters of more than 50 thousand and defaulters of more than 10 thousand at the XEN and SDO level. He directed that recovery from big defaulters should be expedited for payment of electricity bills. He gave instructions to minimize line loss. Identify the feeder with the highest line loss in the area of ​​​​each SDO in the district and focus on it and bring about improvement. A complaint register should be created at the power house level for electricity related complaints. District Magistrate Manish Bansal said that the employees should work with full alertness and promptness so that the general public does not have to face problems regarding electricity availability. Expressing strong displeasure over the poor working style of SDO Ghunna, he directed to write a letter to MD Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited to take disciplinary action against him. DM Manish Bansal said that it is the important responsibility of the department to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the general public. In case of burning of electric transformer due to overloading or other reasons, replacement of new transformer should be ensured as soon as possible. He also directed that the employees of the electricity department will immediately provide information about burning or malfunctioning of the transformer to the concerned so that the time of replacement can be reduced. Chief Engineer Rajesh Kumar and officials of the electricity department were present in the meeting.