The Power Department officials informed that during the last four years, 47 thousand bamboo and wooden electricity poles were replaced with concrete poles.
Besides, a Customer Relations Department including a call centre (complaint), MyBijulee App, customer care, e-mail, WhatsApp services have been opened; the officials informed adding that while the department presently has 56 lakh consumers, 42% of its total revenue comes from 13 thousand consumers.
Reviewingthe activities of Power Department in a meeting held with officials of APDCL,AEGCL and APGCL at Bijulee Bhawan in Guwahati today, Assam Chief MinisterSarbananda Sonowal emphasized the need for expeditious completion ofelectricity connections to all remaining villages in the State. He alsodirected the officials to issue a public notice urging people of the villageswhich do not have electricity connection yet to contact the department forinstalling necessary transmission lines.
ChiefMinister's Media Adviser Hrishikesh Goswami, MLA Dr. Numol Momin, Chairman ofAPDCL Vinod Kumar Pipersenia, Managing Directors of all the three companies ofthe Power Department and other officials were present in the meeting.
