goa electricity department

Goa police's Calangute traffic cell has ceased operations after the village panchayat disconnected its power supply due to an unpaid electricity bill of Rs 8 lakh. The cell, operating at the Poriat football ground since 2012, failed to pay dues for over a decade. The panchayat has also covered sewage and vehicle costs for the cell.

The goa electricity department on Wednesday launched its one-time settlement scheme (OTSS) for power consumers. This is the second time the scheme is on offer, through which the department hopes to recover an outstanding amount of Rs 450 crore from close to 1.8 lakh consumers.

PANAJI: The goa electricity department, which continues to make technological advancements to enhance consumer experience, has become only the second government utility service in the country to launch the dynamic QR code system for bill payments.Through this system, which was launched on Saturday, a QR (quick response )code will be printed on each consumer’s electricity bill, allowing them to make payments in seconds.

The Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) has approved goa electricity department’s petition to continue with the existing tariff structure for all consumers. The department didn’t propose any hike in the existing tariff structure for 2017-18.

Keen to improve power supply within the state and specially to industries, the state government has approached Union minister of state for power and coal Piyush Goyal for 1,200 crores under central schemes for upgradation of transmission and distribution systems in the state.

The chief electrical engineer of the goa electricity department, Dipak S Bhajekar in all likelihood, will be relieved from office towards the end of the week after he was served a one month’s notice by the government

The goa electricity department is in the process of modifying the format of monthly power bills to add an extra column for the additional duty that will be charged to all consumers for maintenance of street lights across the state. The duty will be levied depending on one’s consumption for the month, and will be calculated from the consumer’s power consumed from June, and will reflect in future bills. Under the Goa Public Lighting Duty Act, 2021, which was notified two weeks ago, the department will levy a duty of 5p/unit for low-tension domestic and low-tension agriculture categories, and 8p/unit for all other categories of domestic, commercial and industrial.

The goa electricity department has stated that regular bills couldn’t be issued on a monthly basis due to the lockdown on account of Covid.

The goa electricity department has turned down a request from Goa Institute of Management (GIM) for private management instituted to be billed under the high tension industry category (like IIMs and IITs) instead of commercial category.

A popular eatery in the heart of Panaji, Casa Moderna, was gutted early on Wednesday morning.

The electricity department has suffered a loss of 8,60,000 as the underground power cables were damaged at two places within a span of eight days in Malbhat, Margao, allegedly by the Goa Sewerage and Infrastructure Development Corporation workers, who were laying their new pipeline.

The electricity department has appealed to consumers to make their bill payments early to avail of rebates offered by the department. Domestic consumers can avail of 1.25% rebate if they pay bills online and seven days prior to the due date. “People were not aware about the rebate so we’re trying to spread the word through social media and other platforms to take advantage of this,” said executive engineer Bicholim Vallabh Samant.