Shatrujeet Kapoor, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the two power discoms —Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam — on Thursday said the power corporation had been making efforts to control line losses and theft of electricity.
“With the continuous efforts of employees of the corporation, we have reduced the overall line losses to 16 percent from 30 per cent in the last four years, while the rural domestic line losses have come down to 20 per cent from 80 per cent in the past,” Kapoor said.
Hesaid “Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon” scheme, which provided 24-hour uninterrupted power supply to rural domestic consumers, played a crucial role in reducing the line losses.
So far, 4,755 of around 7,000 villages had been included in the scheme, he said, adding that the process to include 100 more villages in Kaithal, Sonepat, Palwal and Narnaul was underway.
Kapoor was today at Panchayat Bhawan in Kachwa village to inaugurate Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel library, which is the first developed by the UHBVN under corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative at a cost of Rs 20 lakh. He said the power corporation would spend 2 percent of total savings on the CSR activities. He said the corporation had earned a profit of Rs 412 crore in 2017-18, while Rs 300 crore in 2018-19 and Rs 330 crore in 2019-20.
“We have started CSR activities from Kachwa village and soon 40-50 such libraries named after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel would be opened in various villages included in Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon,” he said. The MD said around 3,000 books had been kept in this library and there was an option of e-books as well. He said smart meters were being installed in Karnal, Gurugram, Panchkula and Panipat districts.
