MiM Party Reprsentation on Electricity Bill Waiver to Chief Minister

Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen Legislators in Andhra Pradesh State Assembly.

MiM Leader Akbaruddin Owaisi's letter to CM on electricity bill arrears waiver in Old City of Hyderabad


The Hon’ble Chief Minister
Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad

Dear Sir,

Request—regarding Sub: Waiver of electricity bill arrears of the poor in Old City of Hyderabad

With reference to the subject cited, I would like to draw your kind attention to the serious problems being faced by the poor people in the Old City of Hyderabad.

In the last few years, particularly during theprevious Telugu Desam rule, the Discom officials hadput the residents of the Old City to lot of harassment
on the pretext of power pilferage. Hundreds and thousands of cases were booked against the Old City consumers on flimsy grounds like broken seals on meters,faulty meters or alleged pilferage.

Moreover, huge fines were imposed on the poor consumers for these alleged violations. This way, even though the consumers in the Old City paid their power bills, the penalties and fines imposed on them for alleged violations mounted with penal interest. So, the so-called arrears of power bills have reached several crores of rupees.

I may recall the agitation taken up by the Congress , MIM and other parties against the previous Telugu Desam government when the power tariffs were hiked exorbitantly in the year 2000. In the name of powers sector reforms, the previous government placed huge burden on power consumers and put them to hardships.

After coming to power, your government waived the power arrears of the farmers to the tune of Rs 1,200crore, apart from providing free power to agricultural pumpsets. Recently, your government has waived the power arrears of SC/ST colonies in the state.

I,therefore, request you to please consider waiver of the electricity bill arrears of the poor consumers in the Old City of Hyderabad and also withdraw the thousands of cases booked against the power consumers in the Old City by the Discom officials in the lastfew years.

I hope you will respond positively to this genuine request on behalf of the people of Old City.

Thanking you
Yours truly
Akbaruddin Owaisi
MiM Floor Leader in State Assmebly