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Consumer body seeks action against Tangedco
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If a consumer has constructed a new house and wants power supply from the Electricity Department, the licensee, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco), will have to install the distribution transformer with associated equipment at the licensee s cost.
This amendment by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission to the Distribution code in December last year is yet to be implemented. Hence, the Commission should take suo-motu penal action against the licensee under Section 142 of the Indian Electricity Act, according to Coimbatore Consumer Cause.
K. Kathirmathiyon, secretary of the consumer organisation, said the amendment was notified in the gazette on January 27 this year. However, the licensee has not communicated the amendment to the field staff and hence officials continue to take payment from the consumers to provide the infrastructure. Any Gazette notification
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Referring to his earlier emails to the Supreme Court as also senior officials of the Government of India on “concerns of the people over the alarmingly deteriorating environmental condition in the country which can be associated with potentially enormous consequences”, Sharma apprehends that while India’s total GHG emissions is already the third largest, the current growth trajectory suggests “India can soon become the second largest emitter after China.”