State discoms give lukewarm response to Centre's digital transaction call

A bulk of the digital transactions in the power sector is to be made up by online electricity bill payments

A lukewarm response by state distribution companies (discoms) to the Centre’s call for digital transactions has ostensibly prompted the government to settle for a lesser volume of transactions in the power sector this financial year.

For 2017-18, the Union power ministry was assigned a target of 1.01 billion transactions. But the ministry was barely able to achieve approximately 240 million transactions across all digital modes. The purview of transactions covered the discoms in states and Union territories and transactions done in the ministry as well as organisations and public sector undertakings (PSUs) controlled by it.

The below-par achievement in last