Sh. Rakesh Kumar, Chiheru
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1 CONSUMERS GRIEVANCES REDRESSAL FORUM PUNJAB STATEPOWER COPROPRATION LIMITED 220 KV S/Stn., Opp. Verka Milk Plant, FerozPur Road, Ludhiana Tel: 0161-297-1912, email: [email protected] CASE NO.: CGL-019/2019 Date of Registration : 25.01.2019 Date of Closing : 11.02.2019 Date of Final Order : 18.02.2019 In the Matter of: Rakesh Kumar S/o Roshan Lal, VPO Chiheru, Phagwara, Distt Kapurthala. A/C No: J52GC5200028 Through: Sh. Rakesh Kumar ...Petitioner Versus Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd Through: Additional Superintending Engineer, Op. Division, PSPCL, Phagwara. ...Respondent 1. BRIEF HISTORY Petition no. CGL-019 of 2019, has been filed by the Petitioner, in this Forum as appeal against the decision of ZLDSC, North Zone Jalandhar, dated 05.12.2018. The Petitioner is having NRS connection, in the name of Sh. Rakesh Kumar bearing account no. J52-GC52-00028 having sanctioned load of 184.930 KW/185 KVA, running under PSPCL, Phagwara Division. The 11 KV CT/PT unit of the Petitioner gone defective and it was checked by ASE/MMTS-2 Jalandhar CGRF, Ldh CGL-019 of 2019 2 vide ECR no. 7/221 dated 15.09.2017. As per the report the Y Phase PT found bursted. ASE/MMTS-2, Jalandhar vide his memo no. 25 dated 27.06.2017 directed the concerned office to overhaul the account from 12.06.2017 to 28.10.2017 with 42% slowness factor. Respondent, vide memo no. 54 dt. 13.03.2018, issued notice to the Petitioner to deposit Rs.160917/- on account of overhauling of account. Against this notice, Petitioner filed his case in ZLDSC, Jalandhar ZLDSC North Zone Jalandhar, in its meeting held on 05.12.2018, decided the case as under: - “Er. Suvrsha Sr. Xen/Tech DS Circle Jalandhar, presented the case before the committee. Sh. Daljeet Singh, Rep. of consumer attended the meeting. On scrutinizing the checking report of ASE/MMTS dated 15.09.2017 and his speaking order dated 08.01.2018, committee decided that amount charged to the consumer is correct and recoverable.” Petitioner did not agree with the above decision of ZLDSC and filed his appeal case before CGRF Ludhiana. The Forum heard the case on 25.01.2019, 04.02.2019, and finally on 11.02.2019. The case was then closed for passing speaking order. 2. PROCEEDINGS: Proceedings dated 25.01.19 The petition has been placed before the Forum for admission. After considering the averments made in the petition, the petition is admitted. Notice be issued to ASE/Sr. Xen/ Op. Phagwara Division, Jalandhar (Respondent) along with copy of petition. Respondent shall submit four copies of the following record/documents before the Forum on the next Date of hearing: - 1. Respondent shall confirm that there is no case pending before any Court/Forum or any other authority between PSPCL and Petitioner. 2. Respondent to confirm the status of up to date payments of energy bills and also disputed amount deposited by the Petitioner as directed by the Forum. 3. History of the case specifying reasons of the dispute, disputed period and disputed amount. 4. Point-wise/para-wise reply to the petition. 5. Respondent shall also submit the following record/documents: a. Respondent is directed to check/verify the calculations of Notice issued by AEE/Chaheru issued on dtd. 13.03.18 amounting Rs.160917/- as CGRF, Ldh CGL-019 of 2019 3 submitted by the consumer in his petition and offer comment/submit correct calculations as per prevailing rules and regulations of PSPCL. b. Copy of ECR No. 7/221 dtd. 15.09.17 of MMTS-2, Jalandhar. c. Copy of DDL Report. d. Copy of Speaking order of ASE/MMTS/Jalandhar dtd. 08.01.18. e. Copy of ME Lab Report of CT/PT unit. f. Copy of decision of ZDSC dtd. 05.12.18. g. Regulations of Supply Code,2014 or any other relevant Rules/Regulations vide which the amount charged. h. Any other document pertaining to the case. To come up for hearing on 04.02.2019 at 11.00 AM. Proceedings dated 04.02.2019: Representative of PSPCL submitted authority letter vide Memo No. 570 dated 04.02.19 duly signed by ASE/Op. Phagwara Divn. PSPCL and the same has been taken on record. Respondent submitted four copies of reply to the petition along-with the record/documents as directed by the Forum in its proceeding dated 25.01.2019 and the same has been taken on record. One copy thereof was handed over to the petitioner/PR. The case is adjourned to 11.02.2019 for oral discussion. Proceedings dated 11.02.2019: Petitioner/PR stated that the petition already submitted may be considered as oral discussion. Respondent stated that the reply to the petition already submitted may be considered as oral discussion. Both the parties have nothing more to say and submit. The case is closed for passing speaking orders. 3. FACTS OF THE CASE AND OBSERVATIONSOF THE FORUM: i. The Petitioner is having NRS connection, in the name of Sh. Rakesh Kumar bearing account no. J52-GC52-00028 with sanctioned load of 184.930 KW/185 KVA, running under PSPCL, Phagwara Division. The 11 KV CT/PT unit of the CGRF, Ldh CGL-019 of 2019 4 Petitioner gone defective and it was checked by ASE/MMTS-2 Jalandhar vide ECR no. 7/221 dated 15.09.2017. As per the report, the Y Phase PT found bursted. ASE/MMTS-2 Jalandhar vide his memo no. 25 dated 27.06.2017 directed the concerned office to overhaul the account from 12.06.2017 to 28.10.2017 with 42% slowness factor. Respondent vide memo no. 54 dt. 13.03.2018, issued notice to the Petitioner to deposit Rs.160917/- on account of overhauling of account. Against this notice, Petitioner filed his case in ZLDSC. In its meeting held on 05.12.2018, ZLDSC North Zone Jalandhar decided the case as under: - “Er. Suvrsha Sr. Xen/Tech DS Circle Jalandhar, presented the case before the committee. Sh. Daljeet Singh, Rep. of consumer attended the meeting. On scrutinizing the checking report of ASE/MMTS dated 15.09.2017 and his speaking order dated 08.01.2018, committee decided that amount charged to the consumer is correct and recoverable.” ii. The Petitioner in his petition, submitted that, his 11KV CT/PT unit got damaged and department charged him Rs. 160917/-. He challenged this amount in ZLDSC and requested to overhaul his account on average basis but ZLDSC did not decided the case in his favour. Therefore, he filed appeal in this Forum against decision of ZLDSC. iii Respondent in his reply submitted that, the premises of the consumer was checked by ASE/MMTS-2, Jalandhar vide ECR no. 7/221 dated 15.09.2017, due to damage of the 11 KV CT/PT unit and reported that the Yellow phase PT has got bursted. He directed to overhaul the account up to the replacement of damaged CT/PT unit. CT/PT unit was replaced vide SJO no. 7/4717 dated 15.09.2017 on 16.09.2017. SDO/DS Chaheru, vide his memo no 212 dated 01.02.2018 written letter to AEE/Computer Cell Jalandhar to issue RBS of this account as per report of ASE/MMTS-2 Jalandhar vide memo no 3 dated 08.01.2018. Computer Service Center, Jalandhar asked ASE/MMTS-2 Jalandhar vide memo no. 191 dated 01.02.2018 that how account is to be overhauled. ASE/MMTS-2 Jalandhar vide his memo no 25 dated 27.06.2018, directed that account of the Petitioner be overhauled from 12.06.2017 to replacement CT/PT unit i.e. 28.10.2018 with slowness factor of 42%. Accordingly, Rs. 160917/- were charged and SDO/DS Chaheru issued notice no 54 dated 13.03.2018 to the Petitioner to deposit this amount but the Petitioner filed his case in ZLDSC CGRF, Ldh CGL-019 of 2019 5 by depositing 20% of disputed amount. ZLDSC decided the case on 05.12.2018 that amount charged to the Petitioner is correct and recoverable. SDO/DS Chaheru issued notice vide memo no 30 dated 23.01.2019 to the Petitioner to deposit the amount as per the decision of ZLDSC. Instead of depositing the amount Petitioner filed appeal in the CGRF Ludhiana. v. Forum have gone through the written submissions made by the Petitioner in the Petition, written reply of the Respondent as well as oral arguments made by the Petitioner and Respondent along with the material brought on record. The issue requires adjudication in the present dispute is, to decide the legitimacy of amount of Rs. 160917/- charged to the Petitioner, on account of overhauling of a/c due to damage of CT/PT unit, as per report of ASE/MMTS-2, PSPCL Jalandhar. iv Forum observed that, the premises of the consumer was checked by ASE/MMTS-2, Jalandhar vide ECR no. 7/221 dated 15.09.2017, due to damage of the 11 KV CT/PT unit and reported that the Yellow phase PT has got bursted. ASE/MMTS-2, Jalandhar vide his memo no. 25 dated 27.02.2018 written to AEE/CBC, Jalandhar as under: - “…...as per DDL report Y phase got defective on 12.06.2017. it was also observed that current failure on two Phases i.e. on R phase from 24.06.2017 to 09.09.2017 for 76 Days and on B phase CT from 24.06.2017 to 09.09.2017 for 76 days and on Y Phase CT from 25.06.2017 to 13.09.2017 for 80 days, as PT of Y phase became defective on 12.06.2017, thus, non-contribution of Y phase CT does not matter.