LUCKNOW In a bid to streamline the bill payment process and help cash-strapped Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) maintain liquidity, all government departments, corporations, development authorities, and local bodies will now pay their electricity dues centrally.
According to officials, the government has decided to introduce a centralised billing system in which power bills to the UPPCL will be paid by the department headquarters and not by district-level offices. “A decision regarding the centralised billing system was taken in a meeting chaired by chief secretary Durga Shankar Mishra last week,” said a senior energy department official.
“Under the current decentralised system, the education department, for example, pays electricity bills for schools and colleges through BSAs/DIOs in every district.
