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| SIC comes to rescue of whistle blower | | Notice issued to SE, XEn | | ET Impact
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 21: State Information Commission (SIC) has finally come to the rescue of a whistle blower from Srinagar who was earlier victimized by the officials of Power Development Department (PDD) for filing a complaint before the Divisional Commissioner against the PDD's erring officials .he had also sought some information from the Executive Engineer concerned under RTI Act as well which irritated the officials. Early Times had filed a detailed report over this issue on 30th August . When the whistle blower was continuously harassed and information was not furnished to him under RTI Act, he knocked the doors of SIC which has issued notices against the Superintending Engineer (SE) and Executive Engineer electric division II Srinagar and have asked them to appear before the commission's Srinagar office on October 5th 2015.
Nisar Ahmad Mir (whistle blower) hailing from Srinagar's Batmaloo area was subjected to severe mental torture by the officials of Power Development Department (PDD) and when he used his right given to him by the State Legislature under Right to Information Act (RTI), the officials of Power department got an FIR registered against him in a police station and exorbitantly increased his monthly electric fees.
Pertinent to mention that Nisar Ahmad Mir and some of his associates from Moominabad Batamaloo in Srinagar were unhappy after the officials of PDD installed a fresh 250 KV transformer in the area during January this year by making un even load distribution from the transformer. As the already existing 250 kv transformer was catering a heavy load of 70 plus households , the new 250 kv transformer was brought in the area with this hope that 35 houses each would be connected to two transformers. The officials of Power Department headed by Inspector Abdul Majeed was under some influence and he decided to connect only 22 houses with the newly installed 250 kv transformer. To this Nisar Ahmad and his friends objected and thus Nisar became an eyesore for the PDD officials.
Nisar filed a complaint with the local Executive Engineer division II , Divisional Commissioner Kashmir and in addition to it he sought details about transformer installation, consumer fees being collected by PDD and some other information using RTI Act. This made the officials of Power Development Department furious and in connivance with Batmaloo police station officials they got an FIR registered against Nisar.
" I was accused of damaging an electric meter which is a total lie as majority of houses in our area are not metered " said Nisar Ahmad While talking to Early Times.
The Executive Engineer Electric Division II Srinagar not only got a fake FIR registered against Nisar but he even wrote a letter to PHE officials to suspend Nisar as he was having an FIR against him. Pertinent to mention Nisar happens to be a class IV employee of Public Health Engineering (PHE) department Srinagar.
"The Executive Engineer has not acted on the orders of his seniors till date nor has he replied to the RTI application filed by me. Even the 1st appeal under RTI was not answered. I them filed second appeal under J&K RTI Act 2009 before State Information Commission (SIC) who has summoned both the officers of PDD (SE & Executive Engineer). The Executive Engineer has increased my monthly power tariff from Rs 543 to Rs 1450 within just 5 months of time just to harass me " said Nisar Ahmad while talking to Early Times. |
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