The State-level Special Revenue Team of Power Department held a meeting for the 2021-22 FY at the office of SLDC, Nagarjan (Kuda), Dimapur on 2nd April 2022.

Joint Secretary, Power, Sara S Jamir, who is also the team leader for State Level Special Revenue Team of Power Department, in her opening remarks said due to the shortage of power supply in Nagaland, the Department is unable to provide uninterrupted power supply to consumers however with whatever little the department could provide the consumers have been religiously paying bills. With the improvement of revenue collection, she believed that the department could provide a better power supply to consumers in days to come. Power being a service sector, priority should be given to providing good service to the consumers, she added.

On the revenue collection, the team leader congratulated Team Dimapur and Chumukedima for achieving Rs. 102 Cr jointly. She commended the Dimapur and Chumukedima Divisions for collecting more than 50% against the rest of the state revenue collection during the Financial Year 2021-22. She encouraged the two divisions to keep up with the momentum and worked towards achieving 100% of the revenue target in the coming years, keeping in mind the satisfaction of consumers.

Regarding Pre-paid metering, she requested EE Dimapur to go for extensive sensitization of target areas and explain to them the details of prepaid meter operation in layman's terms so that there will be no problem in the transition from postpaid to prepaid.

Both the executive engineers of Chumukedima and Dimapur thanked the special Revenue team for their continued support and monitoring. They pointed out that the team's active involvement with Revenue activities has hugely contributed to the improvement of revenue and improved power supply in the two divisions.

(Watimenla, IA Dimapur)