Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/MintNew Delhi: Government aims to save as much as Rs.10,000 crore annually by leveraging information technology to ramp up its power distribution network in urban towns by January 2019. “The detailed project report for making IT enabled power distribution system in 2,636 urban towns will be ready in two months. Once all 4,041 urban towns will be linked online, the savings would be to the tune of Rs.10,000 crore annually,” the official added. R-APDRP had covered 1,405 urban towns in the country but out of these 1,226 were made to have IT enabled power distribution system. IT enabled power distribution systems helps discoms reducing aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses.

Source: Mint September 18, 2016 09:00 UTC