Electricity Bill: If you are often negligent in filling the electricity bill, then you may have to bear the brunt of it. Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has started preparing to take action against smart meter defaulters.
Strict action against those who do not pay electricity bills
According to the website of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), 1120145 smarts have been installed in Uttar Pradesh so far. The work of smart installation is going on fast in the entire country including UP. Smart meters will help in preventing power theft and the income of electricity distribution companies will also increase. Therefore, the Uttar Pradesh government is now going to take a tough attitude against those companies who do not pay their electricity bills on time.
Smart meter will be converted into prepaid meter
Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited has started preparing to take action against the smart meter defaulters. For those defaulters who have not deposited electricity bill for five consecutive months, their smart meter will be automatically converted into pre-paid. The central server will convert the consumer’s connection to an online pre-paid meter. When the smart meter is pre-paid, electricity consumers will not be able to use electricity without recharging. What is most troublesome is that once the connection of the meter is pre-paid, it cannot be changed again to postpaid. UPPCL has added this new feature to the smart meter. So that consumers pay the bills on time. With this, the corporation is expected to get revenue and consumers will also be free from the mess of dues.
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‘Will implement the proposal in the next few days’
The chairman of the Energy Corporation gave information about this new feature of smart meter to the officers in video conferencing. He informed that the central server of the smart meter at Shaktibhavan will take a decision on its own and increase the connection from post paid to pre-paid. This proposed feature will be launched in the next few days. According to the Energy Corporation, smart meters began to be installed in all four blocks of the city last year. Larsen & Toubro (L&T) was entrusted with the task of installing the smart meter. More than 56 thousand smart meters have been installed.
Consumers complain about smart meter
Consumers have complained about the speed of the smart meter the most in the feedback sought by the electricity corporation. It is alleged that smart meters are running fast. Despite the complaint, the officers are not hearing any. In Lucknow, the capital of UP, more than 2700 smart meter defaulters are not depositing electricity bills for several months continuously. The Electricity Corporation has made a list of them. ‘Preparations are being made to convert consumers with non-outstanding smart meters to prepaid. Smart meters have such a feature. After this, consumers will recharge first. Will consume electricity again. Due to this, the revenue of electricity corporation will increase.
