Paying
power tariff
Sir,
The
statement made by the Minister for
Finance and Planning Muzaffar Hussain
Baig that people pay cable, mobile bills,
not power tariff is true, but there is
nothing in it to wonder about.
There are
certain reason which Mr Minister has
overlooked.
First of
all I would like to make it clear that
people are eveready to pay any sort of
bill, taxes towards Government, provided
there is proper arrangement to do so. It
may be mentioned here that people pay
cable or telephone bills on time because
the Telecom department has streamlined
its systems. The people receive bills
after a fixed period of time, these bills
reflect clearly the amount to be paid,
late fees to charged. There is no sort of
bargaining. Same is the case with cable
bills. Regarding Electricity bills, the
less said, the better it would be. The
power Department is perhaps the most
mismanaged departments of the Jammu and
Kashmir Government. The department is
most corrupt and most callous. First of
all, a customer does not receive the bill
every month. The customer has to pay
three to four visits to PDD office, where
he has to face the callous and apathetic
attitude of the staff. Then begins the
drama of haggling. After getting himself
freed from the clutches, he then has to
go to the concerned bank to deposit the
fees. The cumbersome process leaves a
person exhausted mentally and physically.
In this condition, the subscriber
hesitates to pay the bill.
If the
Government is really interested in
realizing the fees from people, it will
have to streamline the process of fees
charging. Like telephone bills, the
customer should receive power bills
within time. The bill should reflect the
power consumed by the subscriber and rate
per unit of electricity consumed. Only
then, I think there the Government would
be in a position to receive a continuous
of income.
Yours
etc....
Vijay Gupta,
Samba
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