APEPDCL starts recovery of pending dues worth Rs 900 cr

Says power supply will be disconnected to houses or offices, if required

The Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Ltd (APEPDCL) has initiated the process to recover pending dues worth Rs 900 crore from government and private sector, a senior official said today.

Director (Finance), APEPDCL, P Hari Prasad addressing a media conference here said they have initiated strict measures to recover arrears worth Rs 900 crore from the both private and government sectors.

Of the total amount, pending bills from the government sector was Rs 300 crores, while the remaining from private sector, he said.

Prasad further said that measures like issuing notices, filing police complaint, have been undertaken to recover the outstanding bills, adding, cases which are pending in various courts is hampering the collection process.

"These bills have been pending for last three years. Power supply will be disconnected to houses or offices, if required," he said.

Meanwhile, Director (Operation) P Rama Mohan said that Geographical Position System (GPS) based vehicle tracking system for monitoring the replacement of Distribution Transforms and automatic SMS Monitoring System for vehicles, have been set up with an investment of Rs 70 lakh.

The system will be put in place on pilot basis in Visakhapatnam by the end of this month and will be rolled out in the entire APEPDCL afterwards, he said.

Mohan further added the features of the Distribution transforms Tracking System include online vehicle tracking (running movement) on Google maps, event based auto messaging to concerned engineers and management while complaint is on.

From June this year, the company has so far replied to 3,232 complaints of distribution transforms failure, while 11,063 messages were sent to customers from April this year, till now, regarding payment and billing.