Tamil Nadu Electricity Board [TNEB] — Laying of eb underground cables

Address:	600042
Website:	www.tneb.in

From
Residents of ashtalakshmi nagar,
Velachery, chennai-42

To
The member – distribution (Tneb)
Tneb hq, anna salai,
Chennai-2.

Our adrenalin pulsed to a fever pitch on the atrocious heartless activities of your field men while laying cables. Telephonic complaints to the competent authorities have yielded nil response and hence this communique.
As part o[censored]nderground electrical cable networking at ashtalakshmi nagar, 9th st. Velachery, chennai-42, your men started laying the cable just adjacent tostorm waterdrain waterway that too barely ½ a foot beneath road surface throwingall prescribed norms to wind.
The issue at stake is that our life is at peril. Storm water ways inlets chocking are something that which is not uncommon particularly during heavy downpour warranting human intervention with appropriate metallic tools. This manual intervention leaves us with a wide scope of puncturing the closely laid electrical cable and the consequent impact on human life is foreseeable. This should have been anticipated by your learned field officers before issuing the work permit. This is a clear case of intransigence and lackadaisical attitude wherein they failed to apply their mind in their over enthusiasm to facilitate smooth completion of the contractor’s job though flawed, compromising on the safety of your consumers.
Cedc under normal circumstances is expected to owe its allegiance to public safety at large for their survival and subsistence is met out from public exchequer. Misplaced loyalty is not only misconduct but tantamount to breach of trust too. This culture and mind set needs to be nipped in the bud for endangering human existence is definitely neither the stated objective nor in your agenda - we strongly believe. Hence we look at you with an eye of faith forwe believe you will not allow us to be orphaned by the merciless hearts whose overwhelming patronage to contractors could as well kill us.
Therefore sir, please save us from the heartless few by ordering to relay the cable as per prescribed norms at the earliest before monsoon sets in.