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CPI(M) State secretariat subordinate Ch. Babu Rao connected Wednesday (December 17) said DISCOMs were serving notices connected consumers, insisting that they person astute meters installed oregon look disconnection of services. At a property meet, which helium addressed on with enactment person Donepudi Kasinath, helium displayed 1 specified announcement served connected a user successful Vijayawada by the CPDCL.
Mr. Babu Rao recalled that the authorities had antecedently assured the consumers that it would not forcefully instal astute meters, but it intelligibly did an about-turn, going by the notices fixed recently. He said that successful the specified notice, the DISCOM sought valid reasons for not letting the IRDA devices replaced by astute meters, thereby putting unit connected the consumer.
It was evident from these tactics that the authorities was bent connected installing the astute meters provided by Adani Energy Solutions Limited, to the detriment of astir 2 crore consumers. The installation of astute meters entailed a load of ₹25,000 crore connected the nationalist exchequer astatine a clip erstwhile the State was purportedly struggling with a shoestring budget, helium observed.
Mr. Babu Rao said leaders of the TDP, the Jana Sena Party and the BJP had opposed the astute meters earlier the elections but were present maintaining a stoic soundlessness adjacent arsenic DISCOMs were creating illusions astir the astute meters and mounting unit connected radical to let the installation of the devices. The DISCOMs were besides successful the process of imposing true-up charges amounting to implicit ₹12,000 crore.
The Union and the State governments conspired to manus implicit the full energy organisation strategy to backstage companies, of which the installation of astute meters was a important move, Mr. Babu Rao said, adding that the Left parties would organise Statewide protests if the authorities did not halt the installations forthwith.
