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Thursday, January 12, 2006

DERC faces contempt petition [Sarbajit Roy]

Sarbajit files a contempt petition in Supreme Court of India

DERC faces contempt petition
NIDHI SHARMA
[ Saturday, December 10, 2005 01:14:16 am TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

NEW DELHI: A contempt petition has been filed against Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) for not directing private power companies to disconnect electricity connections of illegal industrial units running in non-conforming residential areas in the Capital.

The petition was filed after the fire mishap in a Vishwas Nagar factory on Wednesday which was triggered by a short-circuit.

On May 7, 2004, Supreme Court had given Delhi government a time-frame to close down illegal industrial units that had come up after August 1, 1990.

The order was clear: water and electricity connections of the industrial units found operating after the due date of closure (the last deadline was November 8, 2004) had to be disconnected.

The deadline for disconnection was December 8, 2004. According to statistics of Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the number of illegal industrial units that had come up after the 1990 cut-off date was about 51,000 in 1990 but had increased to 1.01 lakh by 1995.

Official figures provided by the industries department show that only 2,673 water and electricity connections have been disconnected.

The petition points out that despite the court orders, the private power companies were not directed to disconnect connections of illegal units.

The drive against illegal industrial units was also carried out by SDMs and not the companies. The petitioner, Sarbajit Roy, has said: "The power companies have earned profits worth Rs 2,000 crore because of not initiating a drive against illegal industries.

The contempts, which have commenced from December 9, 2004 and which are still going on, have seriously affected the administration...and deprived the residents of Delhi from their lawful entitlements to electricity."

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