CHANGING METERS ISSOLUTION? The people an honest consumers of water , electricity are made the scapegoats for the inefficiency of the administration of these public services There huge leakages in electricity and water, but there is no determined, sustained efforts to plug such misuse. In the past there were cases were in electric meters were rigged, energy diverted, tapping power lines, not without active connivance of the authorities looking the other way, Cases were booked ,units closed, but neither recovery or punishment was meted out to the cheats, So they blamed the culprits , being he faulty meters in use. At one stroke electronic meters were installed en mass. These meters are running even when power consumption is closed. Test it and see for yourself, if you are one of those having this wonder The pilferage of power is resorted by industrial units, big hotels etc, The power consumption is subsidised for political mileage and the cost is borne by honest consumers. Do not forget that legislators enjoy free and unlimited use of power consumption. They can never be in the dark, so the Govt , offered past and present legislator inverters at a price of Rs lakhs per unit, then Now comes the bolt from the blue about compulsory change of electronic water meters. The complaints against faulty meters is not attended by the Departments, in spite of drawing pointed attention, Any way it is the meter readers duty to inform about it, I have a recent instant of changed water meter that is dead. The departments refuse to re calibrate the malfunction meters and force the consumers to buy them in open market under threat of computing charges, exorbitantly and arbitrarily. Release of new connections after due formality are denied due to lack of meters in stock, asking the consumers to buy or face indefinite delays It is no secret, that under guise of efficiency, somebody draws huge commissions in placing orders for replacements, which finally and indirectly is borne by the consumers. What happens to all the replaced units in perfect working conditions, Every consumer must be individually informed in writing, and not through announcements in Churches and religious places Over a period the cost of the unit is recovered many times over, but still rent is being collected for ever, The toll collections on bridges was stopped due excess collections, after recovery in the costs of constructions. The consumers are not united body and hence they wantonly target us, take us for granted for the sins of commission and omissions of the Departments Nelson Lopes Chinchinim Like <https://www.facebook.com/nelson.lopes.779#> · ·