Department of Energy issues orders to power companies to remedy power outages

To take future measures in view of the inconvenience caused to the citizens due to technical failure in power supply in the State of Maharashtra. The power department has issued orders to all power companies on the complaint of RTI activist Anil Galgali to publish the reliability index chart on the website every month.

Sangita Lande, Section Officer of the energy department, has sent a letter to the Maharashtra Electricity Distribution Company, Tata, Adani and BEST instructing them to take action on the complaint received by Anil Galgali. 

RTI activist Anil Galgali had complained to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Energy Minister Dr Nitin Raut and Energy Secretary that millions of consumers in Maharashtra have been sitting in the dark for thousands of hours every month due to technical glitches. 

If you look at the chart on the MSEDCL website for the whole of Maharashtra for the months of October and December 2019, you will notice that in the entire month of October 2019, there were 15745 incidents of technical malfunction in Maharashtra and more than 4 crore citizens in the state had to sit in darkness for 20176 hours. If we look at the chart of December 2019, 10994 incidents of technical malfunction caused more than 2.78 crore citizens to sit in darkness for a total of 15167 hours. The same story of the power supply company in Mumbai. Tata has published the Credit Index Chart upto March 2020 and M/s Adani has published the Credit Index Chart up to March 2019 on its website. It mentions 13280 incidents while Tata has updated the information till April 2020. This year, BEST's information was not found on the website.

According to Anil Galgali, it is mandatory for all power companies to publish this chart on the website every month. Yet no company has issued revised information so far this month. So he has been instructed to publish every month. Therefore, it is necessary to publish it every month and investigate the incident in Mumbai and take action against those involved so that such an incident does not happen in the future, said Galgali.