Noida, Aug. 11 -- Uttar Pradesh will expand the installation of smart meters after creating awareness among consumers about the technology, state Power Minister AK Sharma said on Tuesday, calling smart meters a transparent and scientific technological innovation.

Smart meters are digital electricity meters that record power consumption and enable electricity usage data to be monitored more accurately.

"Smart meter is a good technological innovation, like your smartphone. It's very transparent, it's a very scientific instrument but we need time to explain to the consumers and that is why we have stopped putting it right now. We want to create education first and then go to the people for putting more," Sharma told ANI on the sidelines of...