{"id":535470,"date":"2022-11-10T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=535470"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:05:06","slug":"four-of-five-u-p-discoms-poor-performers-in-consumer-services-govt-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/four-of-five-u-p-discoms-poor-performers-in-consumer-services-govt-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Four of five U.P. discoms \u2018poor\u2019 performers in consumer services: Govt survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW: Four of the five government-owned electricity distribution companies (discoms) in Uttar Pradesh are poor performers when it comes to consumer services, reveals a recently-released survey report by the Union ministry of power. Only the Kanpur Electric Company (KESCo) &#8212; which caters to urban areas &#8212; was able to secure the Grade A ranking.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Lucknow and Agra discoms have been put among the poorest performers in the country in the Consumer Service Rating of DISCOMS (CSRD) report for the financial year 2021-22. Part B of the survey focusses on consumer services about the availability of power supply hours, the rectification of faults, metering, billing, and the like. Previously, UP-based discoms were found lagging in part A of the survey &#8212; which was released six months ago &#8212; as well.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest report, Lucknow and Agra discoms have received Grade D (the lowest ranking) while the Meerut and the Varanasi discoms were given Grade C. These discoms cater to both rural and urban consumers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW: Four of the five government-owned electricity distribution companies (discoms) in Uttar Pradesh are poor performers when it comes to consumer services, reveals a recently-released survey report by the Union ministry of power. Only the Kanpur Electric Company (KESCo) &#8212; which caters to urban areas &#8212; was able to secure the Grade A ranking. In fact, Lucknow and Agra discoms have been put among the poorest performers in the country in the Consumer Service Rating of DISCOMS (CSRD) report for the financial year 2021-22. Part B of the survey focusses on consumer services about the availability of power supply hours, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}