Highest allocation to depend on performances

"Highest allocation and other necessary supports for the REB like this year will continue in future. But the managerial efficiency and customers service must be improved further," he told the performance target agreement (PTA) meeting of REB at its Joarshahara headquarters here.

REB Chairman Ziaul Islam Chowdhury presided. REB members and the general managers of all the PBSs attended. The target of each PBS's for the fiscal 2003-04 was approved in the meeting.

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REB is the financing and supervising body of the 67 PBSs that are distributing electricity in the rural areas under cooperative concepts. Launched in late eighties, the REB has already provided power connection to 38,414 villages ensuring access to electricity of 47,08,488 subscribers across the country.

Though REB is entrusted with the responsibility to distribute electricity to the rural areas, recently it has taken that task of supplying power to some urban areas, especially where the system loss is very high.

REB has already set a record of bringing down system loss at 15 per cent, lowest than other distributors like BPDB, DESA and DESCO, power ministry sources said.

Iqbal Mahmood asked the general managers of PBSs to ensure better customers service. "If needed, snap illegal connections," he directed them.

Referring the to last week's fire at two separate sub-stations at Mirpur in the capital and Jamalpur, he asked the GMs to take precautionary measures to avoid any untoward incidents. He also asked them to create awareness among the masses to check theft of equipment, including transformers.