Overview

• Officials have initiated urgent technical audits of all feeders to identify weak points and plan transformer capacity enhancements.
• Smart meter deployment has surpassed 3.1 million households with block-level rollouts accelerating to curb overbilling and commercial losses.
• Each DISCOM has been instructed to draft phased strategies for reducing technical and commercial line losses to ensure transparent billing.
• Monitoring has been intensified for upcoming generation projects at Ghatampur, Meja and other sites to meet a 16,000 MW capacity target within two years.
• Agricultural feeders will be separated and all farm tubewells transitioned to solar power under the PM-KUSUM scheme to improve supply for farmers.