Electricity Tribunal Dances to His Masters Tune ..... Public interest be Damned

IRONIC ..... UNDUE HASTE ....... STAKE HOLDERS IGNORED ..... OR IS IT APTEL OVERREACH .....the Appellate Tribunal has directed DERC not to cancel DISCOMs Licence. HOW COZY ..... and pray WHY DID THE ORDER COME ABOUT IN ONE HEARING FLAT ...... and a STAY GRANTED ..... how often have Social Activists seen that happen. The threats the DISCOMs and NTPC jugal bandi have given to Delhites is none of APTELs concern. When the elected Govt. choses to strike as per the Law on Public Demand ...... we have the full ORCHESTRA playing with APTEL, DERC, NTPC, DISCOMs putting up a command performance. WE THE CONSUMERS ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS and APTEL had to take our views too ....... we are not willing to be BLACKMAILED. What kind of Justice is this, Delhites pay their Bills and the Money collected does not reach the GENCOS then who is at fault ..... DERC in 2009 had taken a firm view then ..... and I was part of the Stake Holders who had then asked DERC to throw out the DISCOMs as they have no business defaulting and holding citizens to RANSOM. It is a part of record when we had demanded, hand the distribution to the ARMY for a while and look for a new set of DISCOMS through open Tenders. DERC had at that time imposed a penalty on the DISCOMS and they behaved for a few years. In 2011 they again defaulted and Shiela Dikshit rewarded them with a 550cr bailout package despite public outcry. THE ESTABLISHED LEGAL PROCEDURES ARE FAST BECOMMING A SHIELD FOR THOSE IN THE WRONG TO DELAY AND/OR FRUSTRATE EFFORTS TO GIVE RELIEF TO THE AGRIEVED. DERC and APTEL .... they both have disappointed citizens ..... AND YES DERC HAS NOT FULFILED ITS MANDATE .... had DERC been working for citizens and as per Mandate then by 2007 DELHI would have ended MONOPOLY of DISCOMS ..... and the threats we face today are a direct result of DERC members being Political Appointees. For once we have someone on our side, listening to us ..... but then its a Minority Govt. ..... does that count ..... :) Warm Regards, Rajiv Kakria