| The appellant is a consumer having service connections with consumer Nos. 2240 and 2367, under Electric Section, Pala issued for conducting a women's hostel. The tariff assigned to the connections was under LT VI B with connected load of 16581 Watts and 8619 Watts respectively. While so, the premises was inspected by the KSEB officials on 07-08-2015 and found that the premises was accommodated with a large number of students of a private entrance coaching institution in addition to the regular students of Alphonsa College and St. Thomas College. Alleging misuse of tariff, provisional assessment was made amounting to Rs. 2,97,984.00 and 70,397.00 respectively under LT VII A ‐ commercial tariff, as per Section 126 of Electricity Act, 2003.
Aggrieved against the above bill the appellant filed an objection before the Assistant Engineer, who confirmed the provisional bill and issued a final order. Consequently, the appellant filed a complaint before the CGRF (South) Kottarakkara which was disposed of with a direction to change the tariff to VII A and issue short assessment by arriving at the difference in tariff between VII A & VI B for the period of one year, vide order OP No.1573/2015 dated 22-01-2016. Still aggrieved against the decision of CGRF, the appellant has submitted the appeal petition before this Authority.
In view of the above discussions the short assessment bills issued for Rs. 2,97,984.00 and Rs. 70,397.00 are hereby quashed. The respondent is directed to revise the assessment by calculating the difference amount in LT VII A and VI B tariff for a period of 1 year under normal rate. This shall be done at any rate within 15 days from the date of receipt of this order.
It is also directed that the respondent may conduct a proper inspection in the appellant’s premises and verify whether the appellant is admitting students other than those of Alphona College and St. Thomas College and in case the appellant is functioning in accordance with the tariff norms applicable under LT VI B, it is open to the respondent to allow to continue the appellant under LT VI B tariff.
Having concluded and decided as above the appeal is disposed of accordingly. The CGRF order in OP No. 1573/2015 dated 22-01-2016 is upheld. No order as to costs. |
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P/14/2016 Rev. Sr. Jossy Maria FCC, Pala 