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Maintaining and managing a network database is an essential requirement in the power distribution sector, like many other sectors. It helps in planning and monitoring, decision making, creating transparency, keeping records, etc. In a power distribution business, it is required to deal with a very big data base as collecting and managing this large amount of data is not possible manually. Hence automation is highly essential where the information technology plays an important role. Automation should necessarily be preferred over manual activities and this distribution automation (DA) can provide power utilities with a long-term competitive advantage through better power reliability and an improved customer service [11]. As the data maintenance and management activity is a very big activity in a power distribution business, it can be carried out as a distinct business activity. This is the basic function of power distribution and hence there exists scope for involving different ITCOMs for data maintenance and management. To get the business contract from a DISCOM, an ITCOM has to approach it through an IT consultant (ITC).