<span style="color: #222222;">A Parliamentary Panel has suggested to achieve 27 x 7 power for all and the financial viability of Distribution Companies, DISCOMS is of utmost important. The panel headed by Rajiv Ranjan Singh tabled its report in the Parliament yesterday. The report said, it is of paramount importance that the honest consumers should get quality, reliable and uninterrupted power supply at reasonable rates.<br />''<br />''The committee members are also of the opinion that the Distribution Sector needs to be made more transparent, responsive and accountable. The Central Government should examine the matter as to how we can gradually move to cost-reflective tariff without increasing the burden on the common man.<br />''<br />''The Committee desired that the audit system for DISCOMS needs to be improved and strengthened for better transparency. Simultaneously, interventions such as Time of Day tariff should be deployed as an important Demand Side Management measure to incentivize consumers to shift a portion of their load from peak times to off-peak times, thereby improving the system load factor by reducing the demand on the system during peak period. This can be implemented by the DISCOMs to reduce their expenses and for better utilization of generation resources.</span><br />