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Draft an RTI to a state electricity distribution licensee on connection delay, billing disputes or meter records, with statutory deadlines worked out.
This tool drafts an application under Section 6(1) of the Right to Information Act 2005 to an electricity distribution licensee, asking for the specific records behind a delayed new connection, a disputed bill, a suspect meter or an assessment notice. The questions are framed against the Electricity Act 2003 — Section 43(1) for the one-month supply obligation, Section 55(1) for metered supply, Section 56(2) for the two-year bar on recovering arrears and Section 57 for standards of performance — so each one names a document the office is required to hold. It also calculates the Section 7(1) reply date, the appeal windows, the days of default on a pending connection and the age of a disputed arrear.
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Each query names a ledger, register, test report or noting sheet rather than asking the office to explain itself.
Questions are anchored to Sections 43, 55, 56, 57 and 126, which makes a bare refusal harder to sustain.
If your discom is privately owned the tool points you to the regulatory commission and the state department instead.
One month from receipt of the application under Section 43(1) of the Electricity Act 2003, except where the State Commission has fixed a longer period because mains have to be extended or a sub-station commissioned. Section 43(3) makes a defaulting licensee liable to a penalty of up to Rs 1,000 for each day of default, imposed by the appropriate Commission.
Usually not directly. A state-owned distribution company is a public authority under Section 2(h) of the RTI Act, but a private licensee generally is not. The workable route is to seek the same records from the State Electricity Regulatory Commission and the state power department, which hold licence conditions and compliance filings, and to file a grievance with the Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum under Section 42(5) of the Electricity Act 2003.
Section 56(2) of the Electricity Act 2003 bars recovery of a sum due for electricity supplied after two years from the date it first became due, unless the sum has been shown continuously as a recoverable arrear of charges. Asking for the date the amount first became due, and for the ledger showing whether it was carried forward, is how you test that.
Ask for the meter reading sheet with each reading and its date, the calculation sheet showing tariff category and units billed, whether the bill was actual or estimated with the regulation permitting estimation, the full consumer ledger, and the action taken on each complaint you filed. This is general information, not legal advice; a Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum complaint runs in parallel with the RTI.