1. REVIEW OF RAPDRP PART A PROGRESS IN KARNATAKA 28-July-2014
Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP)
REVIEW OF
RAPDRP PART A PROGRESS
IN KARNATAKA
28-July-2014

2. Go-Live Status of ESCOM’s of Karnataka
Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP)
Go-Live Status of ESCOM’s of Karnataka
Scheduled date for Go live / integration of all towns : Sep 2014
Town Integration Energy Audit Schedule
Month
Up to Jan’ 13
Up to Feb’ 13
Up to Mar’ 13
Up to Apr’ 13
Up to May’ 13
Up to Jun’ 13
Up to
Jul’ 13
Aug’ 13
Up to
Sep’ 13
Up to Oct’ 13
Nov’ 13
Dec’ 13
Jan’ 14
Feb’ 14
Mar’ 14
Apr’ 14
Up to May’ 14
Up to Jun’ 14
Jul’ 14
Aug’ 14
Sep’ 14
Target 10 18 40 50 53 55 75 91 98
Achieved 6 31 46 51 60
ESCOM
MBC live
(100% implementation in Karnataka)
Full Stack with Energy Audit
BESCOM 25 16
CESC 12 6
GESCOM 21 11
HESCOM 29 26
MESCOM 1
TOTAL 98 60

3. Module wise / ESCOM’s Wise Status as on June 2014
Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP)
Module wise / ESCOM’s Wise Status as on June 2014
% progress taken SDO wise
ESCOM
Total Towns
Total SDOs
Office Infrastructure
Primary Network
Secondary Network
MBC Go Live
GIS Network Approved
GIS Consumer Approved
Meter-installed
Modems installed
Full Stack Go-Live
BESCOM 25 74
100% 43
70% 29
40% 1 1% 16
22%
CESC 12 19 10
53% 6
32%
GESCOM 21 23
91%
60% 11
48%
HESCOM 37 26 34
92%
23**
MESCOM 17 15
88% 5
30% 4
24%
65% 6% 5%
Total 98
170
124
84%
169
158
86%
157
85%
110
72% 63
38%
35%
CCC Operational across All ESCOMs
*Only for 26 towns modems are installed and all 29 towns DTC meter DLMS meters installed.
** 23 towns FS go-live ( Hubli-dharwad, Belgaum, Bijapur, Gadag, Bagalkot & Ranebennur pending). Only 19 towns DTC SIMs are activated, balance 4 towns DTC SIMs activation is under progress by RCOM. SIMs are communicating in 12 towns only i.e. also about 30% only & SIMs in balance 7 towns are not actually communicating. Out of 4852 only 701 no.s of modems are communicating.

4. Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP)
MBC, EA Go-Live Summary

5. CRITICAL ISSUES OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP)
CRITICAL ISSUES OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
Modules
Issues/ Status
MBC
Issues in DCB,  Group Billing, Customer History, Group payment in UPS, Vigilance-Lead processing & auto calculation of BBC,  Legal module, Meter change issues, Abnormal bill checks, Billing on Net-metering, Improvements to CCB batch billing process. Collection through SBMs, TPPs on real time, Real time cheque/DD statement, Cash Book, BRS, CBR, Acceptance of arrears in full out of the current bill, Instalment functionality, Disallow to cancel the cash payments after the deposit control is balanced, Deposit Adjuments/refunds in full and partial, transfer of arrears from one installation to another installation, Further recovery process to the already migrated inactive installations, Pre-paid metering, Issues in Bulk updation of assessed consumption and batch billing process, H-Level BIP and MIS reports, Issues in ECS portal.
GIS
A comprehensive tender for updating incremental data of network assets is being floated by BESCOM on behalf of all five ESCOMs of Karnataka.
For updating incremental consumers, field staff in BESCOM are carrying out indexing of floating consumers and ITIA will update the same in GIS database. This overall activity will be completed by September 2014.
BESCOM has issued notice to ITIA for undue delay in deployment of workable Network Analysis NEPLAN software. During review meeting held on 8th July 2014,

6. CRITICAL ISSUES OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP)
CRITICAL ISSUES OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
Modules
Issues/ Status
MDAS
Partial data availability from AMR meters due to –
Outages in meters/ modems/GPRS connectivity.
Delay in installation of meters & modems and activation of GPRS connectivity
Energy Audit
Delta changes in GIS database not being updated, and frequent outages in meters/ modems/GPRS links are causing erroneous reports.
Training
Effective end user training to be imparted.
ESCOMs identified Super user , Track lead training yet to be imparted.
Training environment to be deployed by ITIA for hands on training.
Network Connectivity
Notice issued to ITIA and RCOM for poor network maintenance and poor quality of work.
ITIA yet to revert back
SRS Compliance
Module wise SRS compliance review held on 8th July 2014.

7. RAPDRP PART-A FINANCIAL PROGRESS Rs in Crores
Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP)
RAPDRP PART-A FINANCIAL PROGRESS
Rs in Crores
ESCOM
NO.OF TOWNS
TOTAL PROJECT COST
LOAN SANCTIONED (Convertible to Grant )
PFC DISBURSEMENT DETAILS
TOTAL EXPENDITURE INCURRED
FROM PFC FUNDS
FROM OWN FUNDS
TOTAL
BESCOM 25
282.70
261.36
146.65
103.97
24.62*
128.59
MESCOM 11
25.33
12.07
7.24
7.19
14.43
CESC 12
27.80
27.73
16.64
11.7
HESCOM 29
53.30
52.62
15.78
22.26
38.04
GESCOM 21
38.70
37.36
11.21
10.53 - 98
427.83
391.14
197.52
149.22
54.07
203.29
* Rs crores spent for metering out of BESCOM funds