Bills lethal enough to kill

Being in the mid of my 40’s I don’t remember a year going by without power failures – mostly in the months when it is in desperate need. June and July, as a general practice, have always been the months associated with the summer vacations in schools, colleges and universities, given the changing climate condition causing insufferable heat like last year killing thousands, and seems to revert back with an unimaginable increase for which no measures are surely anticipated as ever before for such catastrophe. 

Strangely enough, the concerned authorities claim to go short of the energy with the seemingly convincing argument over the excessive use of electricity at this time of year and on the other hand, a number of areas in the city are made sure of the provision of uninterrupted power supply – political influence or the residents hailing from elite class – the haves are not so incomprehensible reasons for that.

Such an act of inhumanity showing discrimination of merely a commodity which is paid for is superseded by monthly bills lethal enough to kill – yes, it is TRUE! How does it sound when a person living in a 2 room flat receives a bill of around 10k or someone living in 120 yards house gets 40k for which all efforts turn out from visiting  their offices, waiting for the turn to come, asking which in compulsion turns into beseeching results in nothing but adjustment of the bill to be paid in dribs and drabs.

This ruthless behavior compels people to go for stealing electricity which even worsens the situation as the ones paying for their bills still don’t get it – for longer hours. And as ill-luck would have it, the concerned authorities have some strange calculations to cover their loss by sending heavy bills in the areas where the chances of electricity being stolen are high. In this way, it cuts both the ways.

The Government in this regard doesn’t seem to be serious enough. Promises remain same but people change with the time required to address this never-ending sort of problem.

They sit together and end up with some blazing plan requiring years to fix this grave issue; the story moves on, they get funds which are actually meant for their own fun, their tenure gets over, and the project remains unfinished – but where? Is another question; on the papers or on the land. This is left for us to decide; after all, we do have a role to play too.