IT TASK FORCE ON POWER
SUBMITS REPORT
The Task Force on
IT for Power Sector set up earlier this year presented its report
to the Power Minister, Shri Anant G. Geete here today. The Committee
was headed by Shri Nandan M. Nilekani.. Speaking on the occasion,
the Minister said that demand for power has a outstripped supply
in spite of new capacity being added. Financial losses of State
Electricity Boards (SEBs) reached to Rs.33,000 crore last year
due to power theft and inability to bill and collect. The T&D
losses are in the vicinity of 25 per cent, a very high level by
any standard he added Indirect calculations showed them to be
in the range of 50 per cent. Therefore, the need of the hour is
institutionalise the changes and bring about sustainable, pervasive
improvements. Enabling the core business operation at the transaction
level using information system would lay the foundation for sustainable
reform in the sector. IT would become a key enabler of the initiatives
under the reform process.
The Minister said
the Task Force has suggestions about IT implementation roadmap
with emphasis on commercial processes and in improving the quality
of supply in selected high revenue areas, effective Management
Information System, minimising human interface in commercial process
to reduce human errors and different funding models for the IT.
Implementation of these recommendations require major changes
in the attitude.
Smt. Jayawanti Mehta,
Minister of State for Power and Secretary (Power), Shri R.V.Shahi
also addressed the gathering.
