KOHIMA, AUGUST 13 (MExN): The Nagaland Government has directed the State Power Department to implement an action plan immediately in order to ensure timely payment of electricity bills and help the department’s revenue collection. In order to ensure dissemination of billing information and enable online viewing & payment of bills in towns/areas covered under IT billing & Online payment facility, any consumers not receiving bills from the department must provide his/her consumer ID number along with mobile contact number including the location to the concerned billing office of the DOPN.
The same can also be provided to the EE (Rev) Office of the E-n-C Kohima – 9436602054; EE (MIS) Dmr —8257925964; SDO (Rev) – 9774566578; JE (Rev) – 8974695047; or email at cepowerl@gmaitcom and eemisdmr@Amail.com.
In colonies/wards/villages wherever covid-19 lockdown restrictions are in place, department officers and staff have been directed to co-ordinate with the respective colonies/wards/villages councils to facilitate meter reading and bill delivery. These activities are to be completed within August 2020.
Meanwhile, the department, assisted by the police and administration, has been directed to carry out extensive disconnection exercise of payment defaulters (consumers/localities/villages) from September/October without further information.
A press release from Er Shikato Sema, Engineer in Chief, Nagaland Power Department informed that with the imposition of COVID-19 lockdown measures since March 24, the department has been facing huge challenges, in view of various lockdown restrictions in towns and in villages, for its staff to carry out its routine monthly revenue activity of meter reading, billing, bill delivery and collection.
This has adversely affected revenue collections resulting into huge drainage of the state's exchequer resources to purchase adequate/required power, it added. If the present trend continues further, the department said it will not be in a position to supply adequate/required power supply and there shall be long hauls of power cuts/outages.
