Dr Saket Kumar, Managing Director, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Limited, Government of Haryana


Explaining the fundamental work of ‘Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Limited’, Dr Saket Kumar, Managing Director, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Limited, Government of Haryana said his department had been doing phenomenal work to ensure reliable and quality power at reasonable and competitive tariffs to its consumers in order to boost agricultural, industrial and overall economic development of the state and thus become the best distribution utility of India.

“We supply power to the 10 northern districts of Haryana and have a total connected load of 14,344 MW. With a consumer base of 35 Lakh consumers, the revenue generation is 13,738 crore rupees,” said Dr Saket adding that over the past three-four years, Haryana has done well in loss reduction.

Under the “Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon scheme”, he said that they took a large-scale replacement of conductors with cables and took out the old metres and also other initiatives, due to which their losses came to a reasonable level and they were also recognised by the Government of India. They were also ranked second in the 9th Annual Integrated Rating.


Speaking on the technological intervention, especially in terms of electro-mechanical in power utility, he said, they have engaged project management consultants to fully implement the SCADA project of GOI in the state. He said there were few areas working on which the loss reduction could be further brought down. “Through the RDSS scheme, we will be adopting AI and Machine Learning technology that can be used in accurate and reliable demand forecasting especially in order to fully exploit solar energy, alerts on theft detection and preventive maintenance and also in business support and customer services.” he concluded.


 

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