Discom Didn't Buy Tools We Paid For ?

Power consumers in Delhi, who have paid crores of rupees for electricity supply, may not get the kind of service they are expecting. A new audit indicates that the city's largest power supplier may not have installed some of the equipment that it claims to have bought.

Auditors have found that equipment installed at the BSES Rajdhani Power Limited's (BRPL) supply bases do not match details of the machinery the company claims exists on site. For instance, in January, auditors inspected 45 of the company's 990 kilovolt-ampere distribution transformers and found that particulars on none of them matched with what it had submitted for probe.

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DISCOMS AND THEIR DEBT STOREY

I do not know if above contention is born out of their actual accounting data or is the figment of their fertile imagination.
During written submissions and oral arguments, we have been pointing out their wreckless spendings.I had given examples of DESU IN SEVENTIES AND IN EIGHTIES.
An executive engineer used to maintain around a lac of consumer in transyamuna area and then in 1988 to 1994 an Additional chief engineer or even a superintending engineer was responsible for total area under the jurisdiction of BSES YAMUNA POWER LTD.
Compare it with anual expenditure on staff salaries, their perks and other expenditure and their accountability. In our days, all political big wigs or even small fry used to breath fire over our neck.
In the event of breakdowns, even senior most officers would be personally supervising supply restoration work.
The RWA PARTICIPANTS IN MEETING HELD IN KARKARDOOMA BSES OFFICE AND THEN IN NIRMAN VIHAR COMMUNITY CENTRE RAISED UNCOMFORTABLE ISSUES AND HENCE THOUGH PROCEEDINGS WERE RECORDED LIVE BUT MINUTES NEVER CIRCULATED.
But before DERC they claimed of public interaction and excellent performance to justify price hike.
An ordinary consumer of electricity has no excess money to spare for INCREADE TARRIF.
Any increase SHALL BE COUNTER PRODUCTIVE AND INVITATION TO THEFT.
Kindly do not be a prey to their design.

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Discoms In Debt, Cry Foul

With the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) gearing to announce the new power tariff in the national Capital, the power distribution companies are crying foul as they allege that they have got into debt because of bank borrowings.

According to sources in power department, though the discoms have reduced their losses to 63 per cent in 2002 to under 20 per cent in 2010, they do not have money to purchase power.

"Discoms are running short of money to purchase power from the neighbouring states. They have bank borrowings to the tune of Rs 5,676 crore. New Delhi Power Ltd (NDPL) alone has a debt of Rs 1,400 crore in 2010 financial year. BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) have a debt of Rs 2,627 crore and Rs 1,649 crore respectively in the current year," sources said.

He said that discoms are drawing attention to the fact that since 2002, there has been a whopping increase in the cost of purchasing power.

 

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New Power Tariff Likely From May

The proposed electricity tariff hike, that were supposed to be implemented from this month, may now be effective from May 1. According to sources, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission is likely to announce the new tariff structure this week after a series of delays.It all depends on DERC whether it will allow a hike in power tariff.

The power regulator was keen on announcing the new tariff in March end but there were several delays in announcing it. According to sources, some discoms kept submitting new information to DERC regarding their financial positions even after the public hearing was concluded. While the regulator refused to take any new information into consideration while deciding tariff revision, the move by the discoms has led to delay in making the announcement.

"There is a lot of speculation going around on whether tariff will be changed or not. Discoms have been campaigning for a hike since long. They argued the cost of everything else from petrol to water in the city has gone up but power tariffs have not been revised for the past four years. They claimed the input costs for providing power have gone up," said DERC officials.

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Discoms Cry Pauper, Ahead of Games, Pvt Firms Claim They Lack Money To Buy Power

Delhi's private power distributors have said they do not have enough money to buy power for the ensuing summer months, thanks to an unprece- dented cash crunch.

In letters written to Delhi Electricity Regulatory Comm- ission (DERC), the chief execu- tive officers of discoms North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL), BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna have sounded an "SOS" claiming last year's torrid sum- mer and the subsequent power crisis increased their power pur- chase cost by at least 30 per cent and messed up their numbers for good.

Painting the picture of an impending doom in a year that hosts the Commonwealth Games, the CEOs have said a combined revenue shortfall of over Rs 1,000 crore this finan- cial year has left them broke.

This comes a day after the Delhi government tabled in the Assembly balance sheets of the three discoms showing healthy profits.

"As per our earlier projec- tions, we were supposed to have a surplus of over Rs 200 crore by the end of this financial year. But the turn of events were such that now we actually have a shortfall of over Rs 500 crore," said an NDPL spokesman.

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Tabs On Power Cuts, Power Discoms Will Now Have To List The Duration of Outages In Electricity Bills

POWER companies in the Capital will now have to mention the duration of outages every month in your electricity bill.

The Capital's power regulator, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission ( DERC), has created a new format for the monthly bills that all power companies will have to follow.

The new feature in the monthly bills comes after the city's biggest power supplier, the BSES Rajdhani Power Limited ( BRPL), was found to have under- reported the duration of power cuts last June.

" Listing the duration of power cuts in electricity bills will provide greater transparency and alert the consumers in case the outages have been under- reported," said a senior DERC official.

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