The Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Limited in an official statement today informed that it has collected more than 2050 Crore for the Financial Year 2022-23 against the collection of Rs. 1736 Crore in the previous year. During the current last Financial Year of 2022-23 a total of 8416 Million Units of electricity was consumed as against 7824 Million Units in the previous Financial Year. Pertinently the Electricity losses for Jammu region have been brought down below 50% for the first time. The Aggregate Transmission and Distribution losses have been brought down to 47% for the Financial Year 2022-23 as compared to 53% for the previous year.
It has been informed that the increase in power consumption can be attributed to the improved services provided by the JPDCL to its consumers. The power outages have also reduced in the last year by more than 13% and JPDCL has added huge infrastructure including new Distribution Transformers, Cables among other to provide quality power to the consumers. The damage rate of the existing Distribution Transformers has brought down by more than 20%. The statement further elaborated that JPDCL will continue its efforts to provide uninterrupted power to the consumer by adding new power infrastructure.
JPDCL has also requested the consumers to facilitate the installation of Smart meters as it will further help in stabilizing power and voltage across Jammu and will further play an important role in providing interruption free power to the consumers. As an incentive to the Smart Meters area, the JPDCL has completely stopped the scheduled curtailment in the areas where smart meters have been installed. A total of more than 92,000 smart meters have been installed in various areas of Jammu City and it is the endeavor of JPDCL to install more than 2.5 lacs smart meters in next 5 months. It is also pertinent to mention that under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme more than 8 Lakh smart meters/prepaid are proposed to installed across Jammu region.
It has also been informed that power supply of all the consumers under domestic, commercial and industrial category who have not paid any installment of electricity bill continuously for 3 months shall be disconnected automatically with the smart meters. JPDCL is overburdened with huge arrears on account of domestic electricity dues, however under the Amnesty Scheme, JPDCL has collected more than 80 Crores and more than fifty thousand consumers have already taken benefit of the amnesty scheme and all defaulting consumers have been requested to avail Amnesty scheme immediately.
