The insincerity of the electricity department
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: September 03 2011 -

An official of the MAHUD has disclosed that the department regularly pays taxes for the supposed to be lit street lamps. Since there is no meter system to determine the tax amount the payments are done on a lump sum basis.

In March this year alone MAHUD paid crores of rupees as bill amounts to the electricity department.

Before we go any further let this be absolutely made clear that street lamps do not work in Singjamei, Mayai Lambi, Tiddim Road, Sagolband, Uripok Thangmeiband , Chingmeirong, Khurai, Soibam Leikai, Wangkhei and Yaiskul to name a few areas. We are not just talking about Paona bazar, BT Road and Thangal bazar.

Having said that, how is it that the electricity department is able to collect money from Mahud for services it has not rendered, without any compunction or guilt or explanation.

This is a bizarre and brazen act which defies logic. Only a mutated mind will think of accepting money on such a huge scale, for downright non-performance.

Manipur has its fair share of weirdos and charlatans but the electricity department takes the cake. It will gain an immediate entry into the Guinness Book of World Records. One wonders if the officials in the electricity department never considered the consequences of their squalid act.

And now to the business end of this write up. How is the electricity department going to explain its inexcusable act of accepting cheat money? Does the department issue receipts to the MAHUD for the money it has pocketed?

If it does what does it say in the receipts, does it say that the amount has been received as payment for electricity bills. If this is so, the department will have queered is own pitch.

What if regular tax pays go to the court to seek a legal justification for collecting these undue payments? And what if a dissatisfied court probes to find out how all these ill gotten money is spent?

And anyway what we wish to know is how long has this nuisance been going on? After all this is the height of ludicrousness, incompetent non performers accepting money not due to them.

Please remember it took just one PIL to rudely awake you from your professional hibernation. Then you found yourselves terribly exposed, vulnerable and unable to find a place to hide your faces.

As the saying goes, a burnt child dreads the fire, but the electricity department keeps on playing with fire. What a tiresome child it is.

Anyway since the cat has been let out of the bag, we are curious to know with what other departments has the electricity department been fooling around. It better come clean publicly before it might be forced to tell the truth.

There has been enough tomfoolery around. One only hopes such 'taxes' are not spent in funding tidbit contract or supply works, worse still one definitely does not wish they have been used to pay wages for the muster roll or the casual staff.

And please remember all these lame excuses of a plan to introduce LED street lamps led to the neglect of street lamps is just plain balderdash.

To even think that you could convince people with such a zany explanation will, apart from what has already been exposed, will also surely expose your fraudulent nature.