DHBVN earns 21.27 per cent more revenue

By Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH APRIL 15

The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) has earned 21.27 per cent more revenue during the financial year  2012-13 as compared to the financial year 2011-12 as a result of  concerted efforts made from October, 2012 to March, 2013 under a special campaign.

        It was revealed in a meeting of senior officers of the DHBVN presided over by the Chairman and Managing Director, DHBVN and UHBVN, Mr. Devender Singh today. The meeting was organized to review the operational activities of the DHBVN. The Director, Mr. V K Chaudhary, all Chief General Manager and all General Managers of Operations Wing attended the meeting.

 It was informed that the DHBVN earned revenue amounting to Rs. 6387.76 crore during the financial year 2012-13 as against Rs. 5271.90 crore collected during the financial year 2011-12.The highest annual increase has been 24.59 per cent in Operation Circle Sirsa followed by Gurgaon 23.86 per cent, Rewari 21.43 per cent, Narnaul 20.19 per cent, Bhiwani 19.37, Faridabad 18.87 per cent and Hisar 16.70 per cent.

The increase in revenue has been maximum from October, 2012 to March, 2013 as it was Rs. 3317.88. The increase in revenue collection during the period  from October to March 2013 has been about 27 per cent over the corresponding period of last year. During this period of last fiscal, the DHBVN collected revenue amounting to Rs. 2614.71.

The Chairman and Managing Director was apprised that it was a record revenue collection of Rs. 560. 45 crore during the month of March, 2013 as against Rs. 425.91 crore collected during the corresponding month of 2012 registering an increase of 31.59 per cent.

Mr. Devender Singh appreciated the efforts and achievements made under the special campaign and said that the collection of revenue during the months from October, 2012  to March, 2013 has been over 95 per cent as against the target which was only 88 per cent up to the month September, 2012 for the last fiscal.He said that more efforts are required to be made to further improve the collection efficiency. He said that the aggregate technical and commercial losses are to be reduced to 15 per cent for which harder work is required on technical as well as commercial fronts. The technical losses could be reduced by improving the power distribution system.

Mr. Devender Singh expressed his concern towards considerable improvement in efficiency in resolving consumer complaints and said that the consumer grievance system should be totally computerized so that the consumer could follow his complaint to know status of it time taken in resolving a complaint comes on record for better monitoring and establishing responsibility and accountability of concerned staff.

He said that a special incentive scheme has been introduced for the villages which reduce AT and C losses drastically by getting shifted the meters to pillar boxes and getting installed the new safe and reliable distribution system. The system and boxes are erected by the DHBVN at its cost. The villagers are required to give consent through Panchayat resolution for it. The DHBVN lays this system on first come first serve basis. The incentive may be to declare the villages as zero cut villages which means that a power supply better than that of the towns.

Giving a presentation in the meeting, Mr. V K Chaudhary said that a new system for performance monitoring of employees was being chalked out in which responsibility and accountability of all staff would be fixed by observing performance of each official.