Energy Billing and Revenue Monitoring

For all round growth of any state, the role of Power Sector is a critical one. Only by assuring supply of adequate and reliable electrical power, a state can hope to develop industrial and agricultural base for economic growth.

To cater to the present as well as future requirements of this state, BSEB is also required to formulate and give concrete shape to various power distribution and transmission schemes by which electricity can be made available to both urban, as well as, rural areas.

The job does not get over at this stage itself !

BSEB now must also assure that all dues from its customers, whether HT or LT category, get collected on time. It is this particular aspect of correct Energy Billing, Revenue Collection and Monitoring that prompted adaptation and wide-spread deployment of IT Tools within BSEB.

BSEB consumers within the State Capital would have already seen all cash collection counters being completely computerized and an improvement in the accuracy of their energy bills.

The solution developed and implemented with the help of National Informatics Center, Govt. of India is known as Revenue Manager 2000 and it runs on Oracle 8i RDBMS. The front-end of Revenue Manager 2000 has been built using Developer 2000 and it has been extensively tested across 10 divisions within the State Capital. Today, there are 30 collection counters of BSEB in Patna that are providing better billing and revenue collection facility to approximately 2,50,000 energy consumers. Completely automated accounting facility, as provided by Revenue Manager 2000, has helped reduce billing cycle to just one month and this allows for better cash flow scenario for a capital intensive organization like Bihar State Electricity Board.

There are 9 other Area Boards of BSEB across Bihar where this type computerized solution will soon be implemented to help improve billing accuracy and cash collection facility to large number of energy consumers. 

The advantage of Billing and Cash Collection database running on a robust and stable platform like Oracle has now been extended by its integration with the world wide web. This web site that you are viewing presently uses the same database to serve you in several ways. For example, consumer grievance redressal forum, tender publication, power bulletin status, etc. are all operating on Oracle for total integrity and maximum uptime.

Very soon, this database would be linked to banks like - ICICI, IDBI, etc. to allow an energy consumer to pay electricity bills using online payment model.