Jakiul Islam, Managing Director of Northern Electric Supply Company ( NESCO), in an exchange of views meeting with journalists and local elites at NESCO office in Rajshahi on Thursday noon said that NESCO is a service-oriented government organisation and the prepaid smart-electric meters in Rajshahi will be installed after holding a further discussion with concerned people.
Jakiul Islam further mentioned, to cater with the present-day demand, NESCO has taken up a project amounting Taka 400 crore to install some 225,000 smart-prepaid meters to all households in Rajshahi city to ensure a flawless electric supply and metering system.
The smart-prepaid meters will be the most effective and popular system among electricity consumers within a short time.
A person will be able to pay the bill of electricity from anywhere in the country through the internet and there will be no problem of excessive billing, electricity stealing and no or a little system loss of electricity with the introduction of the smart prepaid meters. He sought cooperation from all to instal the smart-prepaid meters in Rajshahi smoothly.