[Resolved]  Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam — Open stealing - No action

Address:

Faridabad, Haryana

Dear Sir,

After exhausting all means at our disposal, we are obliged to approach you for help and to report unauthorized stealing of electricity in the open by hooking on overhead wires of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam. We understand that we might be disturbing you from your day to day responsibilities, but we hope that by approaching you we can channelize our grievance to the right channels and some proper action can be taken with accountability.

The issue is that armed (with Lathis) people from nearby village are putting unauthorized cables on poles set up by Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and stealing electricity right in the open. We as residents of Sector 21 B Faridabad have tried to oppose this open stealing but everytime are met with fierce muscle power and foul language that we as individuals have not been able to stand.

Forcefully, local villagers (behind sector 21B) come on Sundays and non-working days and equipped with wooden stairs, Lathis, pliers and a local electrician who puts power cables (black color 3 phase) and unauthorized connects it to the mainline. The stolen electricity is then used to run high powered flour mills, multiple 200 W / 500 W bulbs to light the veranda, private borewells, welding shops and air conditioners all of which are running practically free of cost. This has been going on for some time and any one who opposes (legitimate users) is met by threats, foul language and open fisting.

The meters put here in the village area a joke and are all pierced right in the open with a stop pin (Hindi: sua). The meager bill that some of these residents pay is absolutely no match for the unauthorized power they drain and the un-accounted load they put onto the already old and withering transformers and distribution equipment originally meant for sector 21B. Additionaly for every legal connection, the number of illegally hooked connections using privately put black wires is multi fold.

Though it is customary in this country to help the economic weaker section. Typically on a average (in this so called economically weaker section) there are atleast 2 air conditioners per household, atleast one big car (typically 2) with multitudes of rooms given on rents. Any person (official or otherwise) with a small visit can just see this as a complete ridicule of the system and the facilities provided, with the result that people who are genuinely paying the bills are paying through their noses at a much higher cost than would be otherwise of this open robbery was not there.

There are countless load sheddings, voltage fluctuations and blown power lines and transformers in Sector 21B because of this extra load which is unaccounted for and probably not a part of system design and safety factors when the lines were being set up.

As a result beyond bearing countless powerless nights, day time load shedding, huge voltage drops and power surges, we as legal consumers also have to pay much higher per unit cost of electricity because of this stealing and loss of revenue for Dakhsin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and to the country in general.

We hope that by humbly requesting you, some action will be against this with accountability and the poor and bullied residents of Sector 21B can be finally relieved.

Thanking you,

Residents of Sector 21 B,
Faridabad Welfare Association