MANUAL-1 

Particulars of Organization, Functions & Duties

[Section-4 (1) (b) (I)]

1. Objective/Purpose of the Public Authority:

The aim & objective of the organization is to develop mission, goals and to actuate them for the Department of Energy, Govt. of Odisha. This organization aims at planning, developing, managing and advising the Govt. schemes under Department of Energy.

2. Mission/ Vision Statement of the Public Authority

The mission and vision of this organization are listed below

Establish policies necessary for effective and efficient implementation of the Government's programme.

Establish a system to periodically review organizational performance.

Establish and continually review systems to develop, improve and maintain employees' moral.

Delegate authority and assign responsibility to the Zonal Chief Engineers cum Chief Electrical Inspectors.

3. Brief History of the Public Authority and Context of its Formation:

`After segregation of generation, transmission and distribution business during electricity reform process in 1995, EIC (Electricity) continue to function under direct control of Department of Energy with specific objective of the Government. In 2003 the organization was re-designated as Engineer-in-Chief (Electricity)-cum-Principal Chief Electrical Inspector with additional responsibility of revenue earning of the Government. To cope up with the growth of industries with growing numbers of captive power plants in the state, the statutory electrical safety inspection and electricity duty collection mechanism have been divided broadly into two categories i.e. (i) Generation & (ii) Transmission & Distribution which had been headed by two Chief Engineers i.e. Chief Electrical Inspector (Transmission & Distribution) and Chief Engineer (Projects) and Chief Electrical Inspector (Generation).

In 2015, the Organizations of Transmission & Distribution and Generation wings are merged into one and is expanded by creating more No. of posts across the state, divided into four Zones, namely Central, North Eastern, Western & Southern zones and are being headed by Zonal Chief Engineer cum Chief Electrical Inspector with their head quarters at Bhubanewar, Balasore, Sambalpur and Berhampur respectively to fulfill the objective of the Govt. Also Online remittance of Inspection Fees, License Fees and Electricity Duty are made compulsory and an Internet Platform is created for remittance and entering the particulars of remittance of such Inspection Fees, License Fees and Electricity Duty for both captive and non captive entities.

In the meantime, the collection of electricity duty has increased many fold and number of electricity consumers in the state has also increased ten times due to massive electrification through various schemes.In consideration of the changing workload due to introduction of on-line services, Inspection, ED monitoring, Accident enquiry, activities under energy conservation, etc., the organizational  structure is again re-structured incorporating of one more grade i.e. Additional Chief Engineer in between the Superintending Engineer and Chief Engineer. Previously existing post of Deputy Executive Engineer was abolished and SE(Level-I) and SE(Level-II) mergered and designated as Supertending Engineer in the engineering service rule of this cadre.