Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman Tariq Hamid, while appreciating the revenue recovery position, has stressed upon realisation of Rs 9.6 billion outstanding revenue for electricity consumption from the permanently disconnected consumers due to default of payment.
Presiding over the monthly conference held here on Saturday, to review the performance of power wing in the month of January, Tariq called upon the DISCOs Chief Executives to spare no effort to effect recovery from the disconnected consumers.
He noted with satisfaction that the customer service centres were normally delivering the goods and the people on the job possessed the knowledge and capability to perform their duties whole-heartedly.
These centres are the face of Wapda that should be better located at conveniently accessible places so that the customers could be better facilitated in having their problems resolved.
Referring to the revival of 20 percent employee's quota, he said that the priority shall be determined in implementing the policy for their induction on merit as and when there was a vacant position available.
While finalising the disciplinary cases under the Wapda E&D Rules, complete procedure shall be followed in a fair and transparent manner so that there was no flaw to leave room for litigation.
He observed that the technical losses in the power system were on decline and efforts were being made to further reduce the losses.
The technical losses, excluding the units used in auxiliaries which in fact is a consumption at power houses for electricity generation, were 26.2 percent in transmission, transformation, grid stations and distribution system being 2.5 percent less as compared to that of January 2003 due to the continued efforts of DISCOs.
Overall the reduced technical transmission and distribution losses in July 2003-January 2004 period were 22.8 percent against 23.6 percent in the corresponding period last year.
The billing for January 2004 stood at Rs 16.4 billion against Rs 14.8 billion in January 2003, while the collection was Rs 14.7 billion and Rs 13.6 billion, respectively.
This shows 10.8 percent increase in billing and 8.1 percent increase in revenue collection.
The new connections provided during January 2004 were 57,779 (domestic 51,513, commercial 5,237, industrial 347, agriculture tube-well 638, others 44), addition of distribution lines HT (423 kms) and LT (426 kms) totalling 849 kms and transformers 1,212, villages electrified 692, connections checked by surveillance teams 20,761, found in order 14,256, theft of electricity pointed out at 812, other discrepancies detected in 5,693 cases and due action taken against the stealers as well as the field officials at fault.