HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.1289 of 2011 Date : 22-3-2011 Between : Gadde Ramakrishna .. Petitioner And The Superintending Engineer (Operation), EPDCL Eluru, West Godavari District and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri P.R.K. Amarendra Kumar Counsel for respondents : Smt.Jyothi Eshwar Gogineni The Court made the following : ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondents in considering the petitioner’s application dated 7-7-2009 for installing transformer of 40 KVA capacity in place of the existing 25 KVA transformer, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner is an agriculturist owning lands in R.S.Nos.227, 441 and 256 of Reddiganapavaram village, Buttaigudem Mandal, West Godavari District. He is a consumer of the respondents. The petitioner pleaded that the respondents have installed 40 KVA transformer but in the month of May 2009, the same was removed and replaced with a 25 KVA transformer. He further averred that in view of this change, the required voltage is not maintained leading to low voltages causing interruptions in the working of the pump sets. Smt.Jyothi Eshwar Gogineni, learned Standing Counsel, on instructions, submitted that there has always been a 25 KVA transformer through which the power is supplied to the petitioner’s agricultural service connection and that when the petitioner approached the respondents with a request to replace the said transformer with a higher capacity transformer, he was asked to pay the required charges and since no such charges are paid, the transformer could not be replaced. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that so far no demand has been raised by the respondents and that if such a demand is made, his client is prepared to pay the required charges for installation of higher capacity transformer. Having regard to the above submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the following directions: i) Within two weeks from the date of receipt of this order, respondent No.4 shall send estimate for replacing of the 25 KVA transformer with 40 KVA transformer to the petitioner; ii) The petitioner shall pay the required estimated charges within one month of receipt of the estimate; iii) Within one month from the date of such payment, the 40 KVA transformer shall be installed in the place of the existing transformer. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP No.1577/2011 is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________ C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy.,J Date : 22-3-2011 AM