The campaign to install electricity smart meters has been stopped soon after its start. Now normal meters will be installed on new electricity connections in urban areas, whereas smart prepaid meters will be installed in case of technical problems in the meters of consumers with old connections.
Electricity Corporation officials are citing non-completion of technical works on time as the reason for the ban on smart prepaid meters on new connections. According to corporation officials, on September 12, the agency installing the smart prepaid meters reported technical problem in data feeding of the new meters.
The agency representatives said that the work of integration between the electricity corporation’s Jhatpat portal and the meter agency’s portal has been stuck in the middle. Due to this, technical problems were cited in many other works including the billing system and meter feeding on new connections.
After this, new electricity connections have been started on normal meters in Harungala, Izzatnagar, CBganj, Subhashnagar areas. Superintending Engineer Amba Prasad Vashisht said that as soon as the integration work on the Jhatpat portal is completed, the work of installing prepaid smart on new connections will be started.
Power failure in Kila area and Sun City
Due to line fault and repair work, power supply was affected in areas like Veer Savarkar Nagar, Gayatripuri, Mithilapuri etc. operated from Kila area and Sun City sub-centre on Thursday. Whereas in the rural area, power supply was affected in Thiriya Nizamat Khan area from 12:45 pm to 4 pm.
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