Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Aug 6: Continuing the drive against power thefts and for rationalization of power supply, metering and recovery of power dues, the District Administration, Rajouri has ordered shifting of 121 Meter Readers, Technicians and Meter Inspectors.
District Development Commissioner, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary and team of officers comprised of CPO A H Choudhary, Superintending Engineer Manhar Gupta and ExEn Umesh Parihar carried out an exercise for shifting of the Meter Readers in view of low recovery of power dues and large number of illegal connections noticed during the drive conducted.
The transferred employees include 42 officials having a stay of 10 to 24 years at same place of posting and 67 officials having 3 to 10 years stay at same posting while others have completed 1 to 3 years. District Development Commissioner has conveyed that all postings of field officials will now be made on the basis of merit, performance and achievement. The entire cadre of officials in the district has been shifted to provide a new energy to department and to monitor the performance and achievements henceforth, he added.
Meanwhile, Rs 20.76 lakh fine has been imposed on illegal connections found during 1193 inspections conducted across the district in which 719 connections having a load of 498.08 KW were also regularized. An exercise is also being conducted for replacement of more than 50 transformers with higher capacity transformers in view of high load notices in these areas.
More than 4 FIRs have also been lodged in view of delayed recoveries.
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