Tuesday, January 29, 2008

MERC forced to postpone public hearings

Yup, you read that right !

Today's Hindustan Times (Jan 29, Mumbai ed., page 7) has reported that MERC has postponed the public hearings as the electricity companies had not made available (the printed copies of) their Petition books, to the public, as per dates mentioned in their Public Notices.

In particular REL is a defaulter - the Public Notice was issued on Jan 13th and the books were made available as late as Jan 24th, at some of their offices mentioned in their public notice.

Which means that if MERC has to announce a new date, it has to give another THREE weeks notice - hope they will follow their own laws ;)

Meanwhile, the REL petition has a whole lotta misleading and false data - I think legal action should be taken against them for giving incorrect data under affidavit ...

Watch this space for more ...

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