Generate Bulk Demand & Raise Bills

Overview

All Gram Panchayats have a monthly billing cycle for water charges. The generate bulk demand feature schedules the system to generate demand and raise bills for non-metered connections.

Design & Workflow

The Scheduler automatically triggers on the “X” date of every month to generate demand and raise bills for non-metered connections.

Metered connections do not fall under bulk demand generation -

1. For the first month of go-live, it is only the arrears and no demand that is generated hence there is no bill to collect payments.

2. From the second month (X date of Month 2) onwards, demand is generated.

3. Once the demand is generated, a notification is triggered to all mGramSeva users based on the roles.

   • Details of Notification -

     • “Demand for dd/MM/YYYY - dd/MM/YYYY has been raised. X bill (s) has been raised and sent to <X/TotalConsumer>households"

   • Details of SMS Notification

     • “Dear, Demand for Billing Cycle 01/10/2024-31/10/2024 has been generated for Testing. Kindly plan for the collection of Water Charges for this period - https://naljalseva.jjm.gov.in/assam/mgramseva/home. DWSS JJM Assam

4. Each non-metered household gets notifications -

   • SMS Notification with Bill PDF

     • 'Dear, a new water bill for Billing Cycle 1/10/2024 - 31/10/2024 has been generated for Consumer ID for Rs.30.0. Click to download the latest bill. DWSS JJM Assam.

   • SMS notification with a payment link -

     • This is disabled as of now we can enable or disable sms in https://github.com/ddws-org/Naljal-DevOps/blob/LTS-upgrade/deploy-as-code/helm/environments/naljal-uat.yaml#L388

     • Dear “username”, A new water bill has been generated against <Connection ID>. Please pay the bill online to avoid late payment charges <link>.

5. Revenue collectors can see a new card (Updated card from month 2 onwards) with information related to demand and payment collection on the HH Details screen.

6. There is also a demand collection tile/card on the home screen. "Generate Bill"

   • This is used in cases when the scheduler is not run (due to technical errors) and the Gram Panchayat wants to run it manually.

7. The system does nothing if the manual demand generation is done in the middle of the billing cycle for which demand has already been generated.

   • Manual demand generation helps only when the scheduler has not generated a demand for a billing cycle.

To explore the Demand Generation Logic refer to Bulk Demand Generation for Non-Metered.

In the Bulk Demand screen -

Service Category: Defaulted to Water Charges (Module)

Service Type: Defaulted to “Non-Metered”

Billing Year: Dropdown with the list of the financial years from the master

Billing Cycle: Dropdown with the list of billing cycles for the selected financial year

Clicking on Generate Demand triggers the demand for the given billing cycle based on the logic defined above.

Last Bill Month of demand generated - Once the demand is generated for any connection it falls under this category and it shows the number of consumers by month whose demand is generated for that month Last Bill Month of demand not generated - When we create a consumer and we have not generated even one demand that consumer will fall in this category. It will show the number of consumers month-wise for whom demand is not generated. We also provide the option to see the consumer list and edit screen from there for whom not a single demand is generated in the system.

Successful demand generation -