HIMACHAL PRADESH STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD

1.4                 ORGANISATIONAL SET UP:

            The Head Office of the Board is located at Shimla. Overall Control on different activities is exercised by the Board through Administrative, Technical and Finance & Accounts Wings. Organizational structure of the Board is displayed in the HPSEB web site www.hpseb.org.

1.5          BOARD SECRETARIAT:

            The Secretary is overall Incharge of Board's Secretariat in administrative matters and he acts as the Chief Executive Officer of the Board. He also acts as a link between the Board and Chief Engineers’ as well as other Head of Departments in respect of personnel matters. Secretary is the Ex-officio Vigilance Officer of HPSEB, Public Relation, Gaz. Estt. Section/Non-Gaz. Estt. Section, HRD, R&E, Salary Admn., Confidential, PUC, Field Tech. Estt. and General Admn. of Sectt. Office as well as Land Acquisition Office(s)/ Legal Unit/ Industrial Relation Officer work   under his Administrative Control.

1.5.1 CHIEF ENGINEER (P&M):

            The Chief Engineer (P&M) is dealing with all technical matters concerned with Planning, Monitoring, Statistical data maintenance, Co‑ordination between different wings of the Board including liaison with State and Central Govt. with regard to the activities of the Board and other works pertaining to processing and sanction of estimates and project schemes etc. The monitoring and control at the Board level is being very effectively exercised with the introduction of modern management tools like CPM/PERT charts.

            A Computer Cell was created in HPSEB in 1991 under Chief Engineer (P&M).  Since then this cell is furthering the cause of Computerisation in all the offices of HPSEB apart from catering to the Electronic Data Processing and Office Automation needs of the Board.  To bring in efficiency and transparency in the whole system, computerisation is sine-qua-non and in order to computerize all the functions of HPSEB i.e. administrative, financial, commercial & technical (i/c designs) etc., a Computer Master Plan was drawn. 

1.5..2                COMMERCIAL WING:

            The Commercial Wing is headed by Chief Engineer (Commercial) and is dealing with updating of Sales Manual, working out and filing of scientifically and commercially viable tariff to Regulatory Commission for approval, dealing with H.P. State Regulatory Commission on different issues from time to time, energy conservation, energy audit, working out of circle-wise and overall transmission and distribution losses, checking of pilferage of energy, maintaining of data related with number of consumers, connected load, HT/LT line length, distribution sub stations, pending applications, dead stop/defective energy meters, power house wise monthly energy generation,