Thiruvananthapuram: The government has formulated an action plan to simplify the procedure to provide more than a dozen consumer services as part of increasing the ease of doing business (EODB) in the electricity sector.
Simplified procedures will benefit consumers from the domestic category to industrial and commercial industries.
As part of change, KSEB will no longer reduce the certificate of ownership from the LSGI / Income Office to establish ownership of residential / construction of customers who submit new connections or changes in consumer names.
Or, KSEB will now accept the deed of building / apartment sales or evidence of other alternative identities to utilize services.
This change will be beneficial for those who live in apartments.
According to the changes applied, service connections for industrial consumers / HT / EHT will be given based on the ‘effort’ submitted along with the application.
This is a substitute for service connection agreements.
Changes that are debated in the part of the five elevator Kerala and 2013 escalation regulations will reduce the burden of the apartment association and commercial building owners regarding the update license for the elevator.
Validity will now be three years, instead of the current period of year.
Also, the renewal of the theater cinema certificate will also have a three-year validity, not the current one.
Changes in the pipe will eliminate provisions that insist on one cinema operator for each screen.
Multiplex cinema only needs to involve one operator for two screens.
The periodicity of the license for cinema operator licenses will also increase from three years to five.
New changes will free up approval / sanctions before the installation and testing units produce up to 30 kva, at 10 KVA places at this time.
Periodic inspection of electrical installations with a voltage level between 250V and 650V will be modified from two to three years.
Changes are being carried out by reducing regulatory complications by changing rules and regulations.
The government has given permission to the principle to their respective institutions, including KSEB, the head of an electrical inspectorate, Anert and KSERC to carry out changes.