Smart power meters: Chandigarh fixes March deadline for pilot project

Dushyant Singh Pundir

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 4

The UT Administration has set a target to complete the pilot project of installation of smart electricity meters in the city by March 31 next year.

The Union Home Secretary today reviewed the progress of the pilot project with UT Adviser Dharam Pal. The Adviser said they had set a deadline for completing the pilot project before the end of the current financial year.

Dharam Pal said they had also planned to replace all electricity meters with smart ones in the entire city by the 2022-23 fiscal. The project was allotted to the government-owned Regional Electricity Corporation in 2018 and was to be completed by June 2020. However, nearly 50 per cent of the work could be completed so far. Under the pilot project, nearly 30,000 smart meters are to be installed in Sector 29, 31, 47 and 48, Faidan, Ram Darbar, Hallo Majra, Raipur Kalan, Makhan Majra and Daria villages and the Industrial Area.