<p>The company will be investing Rs 850-crore over 3-years (FY 10 till FY 12) to enhance its generation, transmission and distribution capabilities, said Tata Power's Executive Director-Operations, S Padmanabhan.<br /><br />According to Padmanabhan, the company is also "eyeing a customer-base of close 1,40,000 by March 2011" from the existing clientele of 85,000. He claims more than 50,000 customers have shifted to Tata Power from its competitor--RInfra--in recent months.<br /><br />Besides, to improve the power supply, the company has earmarked Rs 300-crore each for transmission and distribution while Rs 250-crore will be invested in upping generation capacity, he said.<br /><br />Tata Power is witnessing a significant market response and this is evident from the nearly 1,200-calls per day received by the company's officials (seeking its power) over the last two weekends, Padmanabhan said.<br /><br />"We will be laying a new network for all our new customers. In the current fiscal, we will be laying around 110 circuit kilometres of network," the Tata Power official said.<br /><br />The cost of laying one-kilometre of such a network works out to around Rs 1 crore, he said.<br /><br />The company has also set up 17 consumer sub-stations in the last six-months to support its expansion.<br /><br />Besides, to facilitate customers' change-over from RInfra to Tata Power, it has set up two call-centres capable of handling 1,000 calls per day, five customer-care centres, 40 drop-boxes and kiosks.<br /><br />"We have 40 officials who go to small colonies, including slums, to collect payments and also vans to go to different places to fill-up forms. Our aim is to create infrastructure, which will make it easy for people to become Tata Power customers," Padmanabhan said.<br /><br /></p>
<p>The company will be investing Rs 850-crore over 3-years (FY 10 till FY 12) to enhance its generation, transmission and distribution capabilities, said Tata Power's Executive Director-Operations, S Padmanabhan.<br /><br />According to Padmanabhan, the company is also "eyeing a customer-base of close 1,40,000 by March 2011" from the existing clientele of 85,000. He claims more than 50,000 customers have shifted to Tata Power from its competitor--RInfra--in recent months.<br /><br />Besides, to improve the power supply, the company has earmarked Rs 300-crore each for transmission and distribution while Rs 250-crore will be invested in upping generation capacity, he said.<br /><br />Tata Power is witnessing a significant market response and this is evident from the nearly 1,200-calls per day received by the company's officials (seeking its power) over the last two weekends, Padmanabhan said.<br /><br />"We will be laying a new network for all our new customers. In the current fiscal, we will be laying around 110 circuit kilometres of network," the Tata Power official said.<br /><br />The cost of laying one-kilometre of such a network works out to around Rs 1 crore, he said.<br /><br />The company has also set up 17 consumer sub-stations in the last six-months to support its expansion.<br /><br />Besides, to facilitate customers' change-over from RInfra to Tata Power, it has set up two call-centres capable of handling 1,000 calls per day, five customer-care centres, 40 drop-boxes and kiosks.<br /><br />"We have 40 officials who go to small colonies, including slums, to collect payments and also vans to go to different places to fill-up forms. Our aim is to create infrastructure, which will make it easy for people to become Tata Power customers," Padmanabhan said.<br /><br /></p>