APEPDCL becomes India's first e-office among all power utilities

The Visakhapatnam-based Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited (APEPDCL) has become the first e-office electricity distribution company among all power utilities in India.

Among the 62,291 files created in e-office in the state, 50,036 are of the APEPDCL's i.e., 80.32 percent of the total files.

About 2843 e-office users working in 532 offices of the APEPDCL have contributed to achieve the feat by creating the 50,036 files and 91585 receipts in the e-office.

This contributes to saving large number of trees which otherwise would have been cut for producing 4.5 lakh of A4 size sheets estimated as saved by the APEPDCL through e-office. The e-office was launched on August 14, 2015 in the APEPDCL's corporate office and subsequently covered all its offices in the five districts.

From November 30, all the five circle offices of the APEPDCL became e-office and entire net work was connected with the corporate office. The object of the e-office is to clear the files without any delay, and to ensure transparency, and accountability.

The Distribution Company (Discom) has one corporate office, five circle offices, 20 divisional offices, 81 sub-divisional offices, 31 electricity revenue office and 309 section offices in its jurisdiction across the five coastal districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavri.