Friday, September 28, 2012

Open darbars to release electricity connections

by Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 28
 In order to dissuade kundi connections, the Haryana Power Distribution Corporations (UHBVN and DHBVN) would hold open darbars in villages and on the spot domestic category connections would be released to the applicants. The darbars will be held in the month of October onwards in the State for which the areas were being identified by the field officers. At least two darbars will be held in each operation sub division in a month which would also enable staff to have better inter-action with the consumers. The results of such darbars recently held in some villages under the command area of UHBVN were encouraging.
          It was stated by Chairman and Managing Director of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, Devender Singh here today. Emphasizing need of holding open darbars, he said  the number of households was much more in the villages as compared to electricity consumers. For providing connections the test reports submitted by the applicants would be processed immediately, which was mandatory to release new connections.
           He said the losses in rural sector were about 65 per cent, which was a cause for concern. Release of new connections will help minimize losses. The DISCOMS intend to provide better services to the consumers and the public representatives should come forward for mass awakening. It was desired from the consumers that they do not indulge in pilferage of power and make timely payment of their bills so that better services are made available.
          He said that the distribution transformers of 100 kva and 200 kva capacity were being arranged on priority basis and there will be no shortage of transformers in the State after a week. It has been planned to implement development programs in phased manner and the officers have been directed to prepare the plan for one month, three months and six months to avoid inconvenience to consumers.
          He appealed consumers to avail the benefit of ongoing electricity bills waiver scheme, voluntary disclosure of load scheme and theft informer scheme. He further stated that the informers would be rewarded under the theft informer scheme and their identity would not be disclosed.
No.IPRDH/2012
Chandigarh September 28: Haryana Government has constituted a State Level Central Monitoring Committee under the State Women Empowerment Mission to take stock of the convergence issues with different departments.
          While giving this information here today, Women and Child Development Minister Mrs. Geeta Bhukkal said that Principal Secretary, Women and Child Development department would be the Chairperson of the committee. The other members of the committee included Director General, Health, Director General, School Education, Labour Commissioner, Director, Rural Development Department, Director, Development and Panchayats Department, Secretary, Haryana Social Welfare Board, Secretary, Haryana State Child Welfare Council, Secretary, Bhartiya Gramin Mahila Sangh, Panchkula, Director General, Women and Child Development department cum Mission Director and Project Advisor,  State Coordinator and Research Officer of State Resource Centre for Women.
          She said that Additional Director, Women and Child Development department and Programme Officer would jointly function as Member Conveners of the Committee.
          Mrs. Bhukkal said that the committee would monitor and assess progress to ensure that the objectives of the mission ware met. It would also set definite time frames and deliverables for each activity of mission along with the responsible partners to develop a coordinated system of tracking progress. She said that the committee would also facilitate convergence amongst different stake holders including departments and other institutions.
          She said that the Committee would undertake quarterly review of the progress of the activities under the mission and use the quarterly progress as a monitoring tool to assess the work undertaken by the State Resource Centre for Women and other structures at district level like Panchayati Raj Institutions and other facilitating agencies. It would consider bottlenecks in implementation and suggest suitable remedies, she added.
          Mrs. Bhukkal said that the Committee would review the status of functioning of different bodies constituted under the mission. Also, it would adopt performance indicators for measuring convergence efforts of all the related departments. She said that the Committee would prepare policy recommendations for the consideration of the State Mission Authority and would also provide Policy advice to the State Resource Centre for Women.
           The Minister said that the term of the Committee would be of five years and it would meet quarterly. The Committee could invite any representative from various departments for convergence and implementation issues of action plan, she further added.

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