Proceedings of Monthly Revenue Recovery Review meeting of Bengaluru North Circle & South Circle held on 25.10.2014 @ CPRI auditorium, Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru, chaired by Hon’ble Managing Director, BESCOM. The meeting commenced at 12.30 P.M. The Hon’ble Managing Director, BESCOM, welcomed all the officers present in the meeting and reviewed Circle/Division/sub-division wise Revenue collection for the Month of August-2014 as per Revenue Review Formats 1 to 16 generated through M/s Infosys and N-Soft software as here under. Members Present:Sriyuths/smts, 1) Pankajkumar pandey. MD, BESCOM. 2) B.L. Guruprasad, Director(Finance). 3) Udayakumar, CEE, BMAZ. 4) Venkatashivareddy, Superintending Engineer(Ele), North Circle. 5) Manjappa ,CA, BMAZ. 6) N. Thiommegowda, GM(F&C), HT Cell. Corporate office. 7) S.M. Mahalingu, AGM-2(REV),Corporate office, BESCOM. 8) V.N. Ramesh, Deputy Controller of Accounts, North Circle. 9) Nagalaxmi, GM(IT & MIS), corporate office. 10) G.Padmavathi, AGM-1(MBC), corporate office. 11) Swetha, AGM, H.T. Cell. Corporate office. 12) K. Vasantha bhanu. AAO. North circle Office. 13) Rohit, AE(Ele), IT & MIS, corporate office. 14) D.V. Lakshminarayana, Executive Engineer (Ele), Malleswaram Division. 15) Prakasshappa, Accounts officer, Malleswaram Division. 16) Shivanna, Executive Engineer(Ele), Hebbal Division. 17) M.G. Kottur, Accounts Officer, Hebbal Division. 18) N,V, Krishnaprasad, Executive Engineer (Ele), Peenya Division. 19) Umesh, Accounts Officer, Peenya Division. 20) Chikkappareddy, Assistant Executive Engineer(Ele), C-1 Sub Division. 21) Shankar, Sr. Assistant, I/c AAO, C-! Sub Division. 22) kiran, Assistant Executive Engineer(Ele), C-2 Sub Division. 23) Udayakumar, Assistant Executive Engineer(Ele), C-3 Sub Division. 24) Janaki, AAO, C-3 Sub Division. 25) Rajanna, Assistant Executive Engineer (Ele), C-6 Sub Division. 26) B.M Swamy,Sr. Assistant, I/c AAO, C-6 Sub Division. 27) B. Krishnappa, Assistant Executive Engineer (Ele), C-4 Sub Division. 28) K.Shashidhar, AAO, C-4 Sub Division. 29) Rajanna, Assistant Executive Engineer (Ele), C-6 Sub Division. 30) B.M. Swamy, Sr. Assistant, I/c AAO, C-6 Sub Division. 31) Manamohana Priyanka, Assistant Executive Engineer (Ele), C-7 Sub Division. 32) Chidanda, Sr.Asst.I/c AAO, C-7 Sub Division. 33) Rajakumar, Assistant Executive Engineer(Ele), C-8 Sub Division. 34) P.Anandamurthy, AAO, C-8 Sub Division. 35) M. Suresh, Asst. Executive Engineer, N-4 Sub Division. 36) L. Ramesh, Sr.Asst.I/c AAO, N-5 Sub Division. 37) R. Narayana,Asst.Esxecutive Engineer(Ele), N-7 Sub Division. 38) Sowmyashree, Sr.Asst.I/c AAO, N-7 Sub Division. SEE,BCSOUTH. 39) O.R.Narasimhamurthy, SEE, BCS, 40) G.R.Gangadharareddy, DCA, BCS 41) Krishna, EEE, Jaynagara Division, 42) Shanthamallappa S.T, EEE, Koramanagala Division, 43) A.N.Jayraj, EEE, HSR L/O Division, 44) B.Sujatha, AO, JND, 45) K.M.Vijaya, AO, HSR Dvn, 46) Parashuram, AO, KML Dvn, 47) Yogesh AEE, S-1 sub-Dvn, 48) S.T.Ramaiah, AEE, S-2 sub-Division, 49) B.L.Narasimhamurthy, AEE, S-3 sub-Dvn, 50) Manojkumar S, AEE, S-4 sub-dvn, 51) R.Kumar, AEE, S-5 Sub-Division, 52) T.N.Sudhakar Reddy, AEE, S-6 Sub-Dvn, 53) M.M.Sali, AEE, S-7 Sub-Dvn, 54) M.B.Chandrashekar, AEE, S-8 Sub-Dvn, 55) K.Many, AEE, S-9 sub-Dvn, 56) M. Ramaswamy, AEE, S-10 Sub-Dvn, 57) C.P. Manjunath, AEE, S-11 Sub-Dvn, 58) C.Dhananjay, S-12 Sub-Dvn. 59) Usha,AAO, S-1 Sub-Dvn, 60) D.P.Kiran, AAO, S-2 Sub-Dvn, 61) G.C.Mahesh, AAO, S-3 Sub-Dvn, 62) Muniyappa. Y, Sr. Aast I/C AAO, S-4 Sub-Dvn, 63) Latha S.H, Sr. Asst I/C AAO, S-5 Sub-Dvn, 64) Chandrashekar N.A, AAO, S-6 sub-Dvn, 65) G.C. Mahesh, AAO I/C, S-7 Sub-Dvn, 66) K.Rajudasappa, AAO, S-8 Sub-Dvn, 67) Girish .S, AAO, S-9 Sub-Dvn, 68) Ramesh T.M. AAO, S-10 Sub-Dvn, 69) P. Chandru, Sr.Asst I/c AAO, S-11 Sub-Dvn, 70) Shantappa. Sr. Asst I/c AAO, S-12 Sub-Dvn. 71) Mokkapathipani, Infosys representative, All the officers should use the official e-mail ID’s of bescom.co.in If any official who have fails to use the new e-mail ID’s shall be fined @ the rate of Rs.100/- per day. All the officers shall check their mail ID’s everyday without fail. All officials should keep their passwords confidential and all officers should operate the RAPDRP applications independently. Hon’ble MD randomnly asked S-6, and S-8 subdivision AAOs to know that these two officials are using the official e-mail ID of bescom.co.in and directed them to open your bescom mail ID s but they are unble to open their mail ID s Then Hon’ble MD penalised a penalty of Rs. 1000 to Sri Chandrashekhar and Rs. 500 to Rajudasappa. Hon’ble MD directed all Sub-Divisional AAO’s & Senior Assistants to accompany the MR’s to the field during morning hours and ensure 100% billing and disconnection. The CA’s/DCA’s/AO’s/AAO’s/SA’s to go along with Meter readers every month from 1st to 15th and to ensure that the 100% of billing, disconnection/consumer indexing/DTC wise energy Audit and afternoon they work their receptive place/office. The MR’s are authorized to disconnect the installation by removing Fuse at Meter board for non-payment of previous month arrears is due at the time of meter reading and issuing the bill to the consumer. MR’s should record the Final reading of the installation and should enter in the data base in the system on the same day without fail. The sub-divisional officers shall carryout their routine works on daily basis without keeping pending and should take safety works of DTC’s to avoid electrical accidents. Tour program of every officer should be mailed to their immediate officer for information., by 5th of that month. MD BESCOM given direction to all the officers to view regularly the Dash board reports & Billing efficiency report of both N-Soft & Infosys regularly to find out the exact status report of revenue performance of each sub divisions and Divisions. Disconnection for nonpayment of ASD to be done 100% except Govt. installations where they have to pursue with the department to pay at the earliest. AAO’s/SA’s should ensure that the reading and issuing the bill to the consumer and the data upload on the same day they should take sample screen shot on the same day and the same should be send to Sri Ramdas DGM, corporate office, without fail. AAO’s/SA’s to ensure that the ATP payment uploaded a screen shot should be taken. AEE’s/AAO’s/SA’s to send their tour program to corporate office on fortnightly basis without fail. HT/LT5 bills should be billed in the system and manual bill is not allowed. Arrears noted in the format should be reduced by 50% of the arrears to be recovered in October-2014 duly effecting 100% disconnection and the same brought to next meeting. CA’s/DCA’s /AO’s /AEE’s should come along with their laptops to the meeting. Hon’ble MD directed to the Representatives of the software to provide a three systems with their software fully loaded with high speed data card. DCAs of the circles shall take action in this regard. Regarding theft cases, the MD BESCOM, instructed sub divisional officers to intimate the cases noticed at the field and intimate directly to SP Vigilance by taking photographs at the field. Regarding the incentives payable to the complainants it is directed Circle SEE’s to settle the claims as and when it occurs. Such instances may be kept confident. MD has instructed all the officers to attend the billing complaints within the time limit. MD has asked Assistant Account Officers about the Tour Programme and instructed all Assistant Account Officers and in charge Senior Assistants to visit the field with the Meter Readers for half of the day by rotating as per MRs and have to work in the office in the afternoon. Assistant Account Officers have to maintain the records of the Tour Programme and final reports shall be sent to the concerned Deputy Controller of Accounts of circle every month and same shall be reviewed by Director (Finance). MD has instructed to disconnect the installations, if arrears is more than 50 % of the demand while meter reading. If Meter Readers are not uploading data every day, the disciplinary action will be taken on the Assistant Account Officers and Senior Assistants. Managing Director, BESCOM, analyzed the long disconnected installations sub-division wise and it was viewed seriously. Managing Director, BESCOM, analyzed the additional security deposits demand and collections and instructed to collect the same. Managing Director, BESCOM, reviewed sub-division wise billing efficiency and the billing efficiency of all sub divisions has been increased and meanwhile insisted to issue bill LT6 & LT7 installations regularly. Managing Director, BESCOM, analyzed the live arrears sub division wise and instructed all the sub-divisions to collect it as soon as possible. Director(Finance) analyze the Meter Reader wise arrears and expressed his dissatisfaction on huge arrears outstanding against these MRs. In S-11 Madappa and Basavaraju JEE having Rs. 34 lakhs and 26 lakhs arrears, In S-2 Mr-11 Rs. 9.64 lakhs , In S-1 total arrears Rs.6 crores outstanding, In S-12 Vijayakumar MR having Rs. 23 lakhs arrears, In S-10 Chaluvaraju, Manju having arrears Rs. 11 lakhs each, Bharath MR Rs.10 lakhs,Raghavendra Prasad MR-37, Rs. 10 lahks, C-7 Karan Rs.10 lakhs arrears outstanding. And advised to AEE/AAO/Sr. Asst. to collect the outstanding arrears and it should be Zero in next month meeting. All Assistant Executive Engineer (Ele) and Assistant Account Officers raised the issue that disconnection list is not updated on daily basis in Infosys billing software. Managing Director, BESCOM and Director (Finance), asked Infosys staff to make real time payments updation process speedy. It was discussed that mobile towers RTGS payments is being delayed and as adjustment is passed, arrears is shown even though payments is made. Managing Director, BESCOM, asked Director (Finance), address the issue and reduce it to make payments directly in form of receipts rather than adjustments. Managing Director, BESCOM, asked the sub-division officers to disconnect the power supply to hoardings without BBMP approval. C2 sub-division Assistant Executive Engineer (Ele) brought the point that, those bills are paid by the consumers but it’s not going to show the result in billing efficiency and resulting decreasing in billing efficiency. Managing Director, BESCOM, instructed DGM (F&C), revenue to address the issue. Managing Director, BESCOM, reviewed sub-division wise billing efficiency and instructed N4 sub-division and C8 sub-division to improve it and insisted to bill LT6 & LT7 installations regularly. Discussed regarding high number of zero consumption installations and asked AEE & AAOs to inspect the zero consumption installations and report the same in the next meeting. To check zero consumption installations by AEE one percent and Five percent by AAO without fail. South circle Meeting concluded at 2.30 PM with vote of Thanks from the chair Sd/- (T.H. SHAKEEL AHAMED) CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER (F&C) BESCOM.