CWP No.17264 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. DATE OF DECISION: 24.9.2010 Rajbir Poonia and others ...Petitioners VERSUS DHBVNL and others …Respondents CORAM HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI PRESENT: Mr. P.S.Jammu, Advocate for the petitioners Permod Kohli, J. (Oral) Notice of motion. Mr.Mohnish Sharma, Advocate appearing for Mr.Narender Hooda, Advocate who is present in Court has been asked to accept notice on behalf of the respondents. Keeping in view the prayer made and with the consent of the counsel, this petition is disposed of at motion stage. The petitioners are residents of Village Kharian Tehsil and District Sirsa and are residing in Dhanies (Farm Houses) which are surrounded by about 100-125 Dhanies. There is also a Primary School in the area. The petitioners are getting power supply through 11 KV Nuhian Wali Feeder which is emanating from 132 KV Sub Station Odhan. It is alleged that this CWP No.17264 of 2010 2 Feeder is more than 20 Kms away from the locality and on account of the long distance, the petitioners alongwith other consumers residing in the Dhanies of Village Kharian are getting very poor voltage and frequent interruption in supply due to lengthy 11 KV Nuhian Wali Feeder. The petitioners accordingly made representation vide Annexure P-1 for shifting their power connection from 132 KV Sub Station Odhan to 33 KV Kharian Sub Station. The representation of the petitioners was examined by the General Manager, OP Circle, DHBVN, Sirsa who recommended for redressal of genuine grievance of the petitioners vide his letter dated 17.6.2008 (Annexure P-2). This was followed by other recommendations made by the Superintending Engineer, OP Circle, Sirsa vide letters dated 28.11.2008 (Annexure P-3) and 10.9.2009 (Annexure P-4) and 10.4.2009 (Annexure P-5). Vide the aforesaid recommendations, the grievance of the petitioners has been found to be genuine. The grievance of the petitioner is that despite the representation (Annexure P-1) and the recommendations (Annexures P-2 to P-5), no action has been taken. In view of the above, this petition is disposed of with a direction to respondents to take a decision on the representation (Annexure P-1), in the light of the recommendations (Annexures P-2 to P-5) within a period of two months from the date a certified copy of this order is furnished to the competent authority. Needless to say, in the event the claim of the petitioners is to be rejected, it shall be by a reasoned and speaking order. (PERMOD KOHLI) JUDGE 24.9. 2010 MFK CWP No.17264 of 2010 3