The consumer-unfriendly MERC has announced a whole series of Public Hearings - just so that you can be charged MORE for electricity, from April 1st.

Your April bills will come in the first week of May and by then it will be "too late" to file any appeal with MERC - 45 day period from date of Order will be over!

It is better to raise your voice NOW.

If you don't know what to do, don't worry - I have made a list of MERC's violations - and illegalities in the conduct of these hearings - and have posted these files at the BIJLEE Yahoo Group site in this message... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bijlee/message/1266

Just make the necessary changes (highlighted in BLUE) and courier it to the respective companies as well as to MERC (MERC address is in the document).

Though MERC does not permit email submissions, you can take a chance and also email it to mercindia@mercindia.org.in - and please mark me a copy at snohri2004@yahoo.co.in so that I will be able to take it up with MERC.

The message also has 2 sample pdf files, of my previous submissions, for your reference - so that you can see what a finished output will look like.

Please send these as soon as possible, as the following are the dates:
Jan 21 - MahaTransco (Last date for filing suggestions was Jan 15)
Feb 4 - MahaGenco (Last date... is Jan 29)
Feb 6 - BEST (Last date ... is Feb 1)
Feb 6 - TPC (Last date .. is Jan 30)
Feb 9 - REL (Last date ... is Feb 04)
Feb 18 - Pune - MahaVitaran (Last date .. is Feb 2)
Feb 21 - CBD Belapur - MahaVitaran (Last date .. is Feb 2)

Take action NOW - or pay higher bills later ...

"For evil to flourish, good people have to do nothing .. and evil shall flourish" - Edmund Burke