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The Punjab State Electricity Board(PSEB) has tied up with a private company-KLG System- for providing on-the-spot billing and payment facility to residents. Scheduled to kickstart in August 2009, the service would not only save time, but also prove to be a boon for PSEB as consumers would not be able to evade bill payment. According to information, while amount up to Rs 1,000 would be payable with cash, any sum higher than that would require issuance of a cheque.KLG System- a Gurgaon-based company was hired to do the meter reading and issue on the spot bills. "Looking at the good response from the public, we have decided to extend it to two more divisions- CMC and Focal Point. In all, a total of 1.6 lakh consumers will avail of this facility at their doorstep. The service will start from August 1," said HS Randhawa, Deputy Chief Engineer, PSEB.
In the light of ongoing legal dispute between RIL and RNRL on the natural gas from K-G (Krishna Godavari) basin, Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy has requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take appropriate action to protect the rights of the Government over allocation and pricing of natural g...
In a new twist to the battle between Anil and Mukesh Ambani group firms, the Central government asked the Supreme Court to make it a respondent in the ongoing gas supply dispute to safeguard its interests. In its affidevit filed in the apex court in response to a petition filed by Mukesh Ambani-led ...
Beginning January 7 next year, no electrical appliance maker will be allowed to sell products that are low on energy savings. The government has told electrical appliances’ makers to sell only those products that have been certified as energy efficient.The directive at present applies to four catego...
The gradual picking-up of the monsoon has seen the average market price of traded electricity coming back to normal levels. Power availability has increased, with water levels in the reservoirs feeding the hydro power plants going up. The latest data compiled by the Indian Energy Exchange shows the ...
India's Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal wound up an inspection of the Kosi river in Nepal, and suggested a high dam as a permanent solution to frequent floods of the river that hit both countries. At a joint press conference in Kathmandu after inspecting the repair undertaken on the dama...
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chhattisgarh government to set up a 4000-Mw power project in the state. The NTPC plant that will come up near Lara village in Raigarh district will have five units of 800 Mw each. This will be the...
India's peak power deficit is expected to widen in the current fiscal year to 12.6 percent from 11.9 percent in the 2008/09 fiscal year that ended in March, junior power minister Bharatsinh Solanki said. India plans to add 78.7 gigawatts (GW) of power generation during the five year ending March 201...
The draft plan for converting Chandigarh into a ‘solar city’ has been finalised by the Chandigarh Administration. The plan was discussed during a meeting between officials of the Administration and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Now, the plan will be submitted to UT Administrator General...
