13.7.2008 Dear Sarbajit,
It's been a long time since we interacted and I thought you may be interested in having an update on the Mumbai bijlee front. You are probably aware that we are a small group in Mumbai taking on the electricity issue with MERC. One of our group members has received another 'wonderful' RTI reply from the MERC about Reliance Infrastructure's status as an Electricity Distributor in Mumbai. (Rel Infra is the new company name for Rel Energy). In fact I wrote to MERC asking them for an explanation - but, not surprisingly, have not received any response from them. It was an RTI response that earlier exposed the fact that the Chairman of MERC, Dr. Pramod Deo (now Chairman of CERC) was once a Director in BSES Ltd (the same Rel Energy company) and he had 'hidden' this fact in his application for the post of MERC Chairman. The Supreme Court has paved the way for competition in Mumbai's supply by declaring that Tata Power always HAD a license for retail supply, something that REL had got MERC to 'stay' in order to enjoy a monopolistic situation. We have filed a case in the Supreme Court already and REL's License status issue is now subjudice! Here are some relevant links: http://bijleepower.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-merc-lying-or-is-rel-infra-lying.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bijlee/message/1610 Just thought that you may be interested in knowing of these developments. Warm regards, Sandeep N. Ohri [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9833097575 Moderator-bijlee Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bijlee http://snohri.blogspot.com (personal blog) http://bijleepower.blogspot.com (on bijlee) Download prohibited? No problem. CHAT from any browser, without download. Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php/
