Uttar Pradesh: Faulty power meters go beyond permissible limit

The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) has identified more than 1.3 million electricity meters in the state as defective as of June 2021. This also includes 767,000 meters that have been faulty for over six months, causing revenue losses to the corporation which is forced to issue provisional bills to such consumers regardless of their actual power consumption.

Finding the number of the identified defective meters to be ‘excessive’ and exceeding the permissible limit by far, UPPCL managing director Pankaj Kumar last month sent a circular to the discoms’ managing directors, asking them to launch a drive to ensure all the defective meters were replaced.