an exchange with Mr R

On 8/28/07, in response to my posting titled 'no thermal plant in my backyard, please!', Mr R wrote:

Can we not have the law applied to collect monies due. We are seeing it applied to the rich and famous!

R

My response

Lack of political will to enforce the law, Sir! When Anil Ambani's Reliance Power raises a bill, even Dawwod Ibrahim's henchman in Dharawi (Mumbai) pays up on time, fearing disconnection in case of delays. As compared to that, all it requires here is for a call from the local Corporator's PA to carry on merrily without a sanction or a bill. In fact, a KERC member admitted recently in an open public forum that the non-payers in Karnataka form a far more powerful lobby than the payers. And, quite the height of it all was when a Delhi state cabinet minister was running a full-scale battery charging unit on an unauthorised connection for years together under the erstwhile DESU regime. Of course, things have now changed in Delhi after the take-over by Tata's and Reliance.

Muralidhar Rao