Since the Minister of Water Parvesh Verma has announced that the Delhi government will launch the “main account of the account”, water accounts have been in the center of attention. Now the Times of India has reported and quoted sources that the government of the main Minister Rekha Gupta in the Union plans to soon rework urban distribution and billing systems through the installation of “intelligent meters” throughout the city.
Minister Parvesh Verma ordered Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to immediately rework the billing system. However, the company responsible for DJB billing is reportedly not occupied by any other government projects and the Minister of Water intends to involve a new company after upgrading the system.
Several measures are taken to improve the Delhi Council Operations to deal with financial inefficiency and problems such as inflated accounts and incorrect and outdated reading. According to officials, the current practice of readers of meters proved ineffective. The 41 deli JAL board zones administer almost 1,000 meters of almost 26.5 lakh consumers of water.
What is an “intelligent meter”?
The intelligent water management gaming meter refers to technologically advanced measuring infrastructure used to accurately measure and record the use of water in real time. Unlike traditional water meters, where manual reading is required and is susceptible to a human error, intelligent meters of automated values provide. These values are transmitted to public companies for billing and analysis purposes.
When will this new system be implemented?
According to the report, the new system would be introduced as soon as the proposed scheme to solve the problem of inflated water accounts is made via the account. The aim of this system is to reduce the waiting “home accounts by up to 90 percent”.
Currently, water consumption is up to 20,000 liters per month for free household, which is a subsidy continued by the government of BJP, which was introduced by the previous government of AAP.
The benefits of intelligent meters
Through this new measuring system, the task of support agents will be removed together with Touts who allegedly receive bribes to clean the accounts. Moreover, the payments process will be facilitated to consumers.
Currently, the billing system does not show the breakup of old accounts that will be included with the implementation of an intelligent meter.
“The billing system will also be updated, the software is evolving, and there are some technical problems that are being developed,” Hindustan Times Parvesh Verma quoted when he said when BJP finished for the first 100 days in Delhi.
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