IMPHAL: The cabinet has decided to convert the power department into a corporation. It also resolved to put a ban on storage, sale and consumption of smokeless tobacco products. The government has been supplying power four to five hours in a day to the people since the last few years forcing middle-class consumers to procure generators to meet their daily needs. Owing to the abysmal power supply, many industrial units in Imphal are dysfunctional. To ensure effective power tariff collection, the government has already begun a pre-paid metre system in some parts of Imphal city where additional power is supplied to customers.
Chaired by chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, the cabinet meeting on Thursday evening studied an assessment report submitted by SBI CAP, which was hired by the state government as a consultant in the matter.
The meeting agreed to set up two separate companies, one for handling distribution of power and the other to handle generation and transmission, official sources said.
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