Power bill precedes connection
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 05 2013 :
Power Department has been demanding tax from a consumer who applied for new connection in October last year but has not been given connection till date.
One Nongmeikappam Shamphabi Devi of Singjamei Wangma Kshetri Leikai under Kongba sub-division of Imphal Electrical Division III obtained TR and deposited Rs 2164 with Power Department on October 10 last year for making new connection.
Even as the concerned Executive Engineer issued an order and intimated the consumer that she would get maximum connected load of 1.5 KW from her new connection, one meter reader came to the consumer calculated that connected load for a period up to July 30 this year is 4KW and the meter reader served a bill of Rs 9936 to Shamphabi for the same period.
Strangely, no meter has been installed at the house of the prospective consumer so far.