The Minister
of Civil Supplies & Energy (Karnataka) had deleted some 2 lakhs of gas
connections by the end of October, 2011, stating the non submission of the
documents of proof, which she required to VERIFY the authenticity of the GAS
CONSUMERS! The intention behind the VERIFICATION was good as what
she wanted was to root out the ILL QUALIFIED GAS CONNECTIONS that she could
save lakhs of rupees every month! But, what she didn’t understand was that
when given an opportunity the Gas Suppliers (Who Can Be Rightly Considered As Sakuni
Of Mahabaratha!) will MAKE THE MAXIMUM OUT OF IT; and, there will be nobody
stopping them doing so at the expense of the genuine customers! And, that is
exactly what happened; they rooted out the customers pretending they were the messiahs
who STAND FOR THEM!
When a large
number of Genuine Customers got their gas connections disconnected due to the
SO CALLED NON SUBMISSION OF THE DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE ASKED TO BE SUBMITTED,
WHAT THEY DIDN’T KNOW (Including the well intended Minister) WAS THAT A HUGE
NUMBER OF THE SUBMITTED DOCUMENTS WERE MISHANDLED & A LARGE NUMBER OF THEM
WERE NEVER SENT TO THE VERIFYING DEPARTMENTS, BY THE WILY GAS AGENCIES, WHICH
WERE ANOINTED AS THE DOCUMENT COLLECTING CENTRES! And, due to this WHOLESOMELY IRRESPONSIBLE & UTTERLY CONTEMPTUOUS ACT
OF THE GAS AGENCIES, THOUSANDS ARE DENIED THEIR LEGITIMATE REFILLING, IN THE
NAME OF ‘NON SUBMISSION’!
Nobody,
including the minister, seems to be aware of this cheating by the wily gas
agencies! And, it is another fact that no one can be certain
of the VERIFYING PROCESS which is supposed to have taken place in SOME
VERIFICATION CENTRES, as THE IRRESPONSIBLITY FACTOR plays a major role
in all the departments of the existing machinery, as NOBODY IS EVER HELD
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OMISSIONS, CARELESSNESS, BLUNDERS etc committed @
the expense of The Common Man!
In all the
cases, the person or in the other words The Common Man suffers for the
stupidities committed by the Non Common Man & the rectification of things
is something that seldom happens! The person or the persons who are the perpetrators
will never be held accountable & the Sun rises again the next morning!
In my
personal case, we got our gas refilled in the month of November
2011, well after the verification process was over, when we booked the
refilled cylinder on November 9, 2011, via IV – enough proof that the verification process of Our Submitted
Documents IS OVER & WE ARE ENTITLED TO HAVE THE REFILLED CYLINDERS!
But, when we tried to book again, after a duration of more than 4 months, we
found out to our utter disgust that OUR ‘8’ YEAR OLD GAS CONNECTION STOOD
DISCONNECTED due to some stupid people somewhere along the organisational
line & NOBODY IS RESPONSIBLE! Neither the Wily Gas Agency –Sri Rama
(Gas) Agency in our case! – nor any body else is taking responsibility for THE
GROSS INJUSTICE DONE & no official or the minister is around to solve
the issue! It is shocking to know that all this sort of GAS HUMBUG is happening
while the refilled gas cylinders –filled by ‘the Greased Palms’ of the Wily Gas
Agencies!- fly right & left of one’s existence (Common Man’s Existence!),
night & day! It is shocking to know that due to the much irresponsible
& non accountable people in various positions of the machinery ONE FINE
MORNING THE GAS CONNECTION WHICH WE HAVE BEEN USING FOR THE LAST ‘8’ LONG YEARS
STOOD DISCONNECTED! And, we are sure, WE ARE NOT ALONE!
The Article
Posted On This Incident On 16-03-12, the very day it all happened, can be read
@ www.viewcrackers.blogspot.com!
I reproduce a small part of it below!
HIS GAS
MAGESTY'S PROOFS AND THE PROOFLESS BOXES OF HIS GASDOM!
Only when the
Food & Civil Supplies minister of Karnataka announced – In the Month of
September or October 2011!- over the media that the verification of all the
documents submitted by the GAS OWNERS –THE GAS COMMON MEN!- was done, the wily gas
distributers all over the state restarted to give the supplies to the Gas Common
Man again!
Our document submission was done, either in the month of July or August as per
the news paper announced requirements, to OUR GAS AGENCY –Which Is ‘Sri Rama
(Gas) Agency’, all these last 7 Years!- which put PROOFLESS CARD BOARD
BOXES infront of the gas agency's veranda in those Document Collection Days of
2011, to collect the Required Documents Prooflessly from the Gas Common
Man!
When, at the
time of submission of the so called required documents, -In the month of July
or August, 2011- we asked for the bill stating the reception of the documents,
the stingy looking lady at the counter –There were more than a couple of miserly
looking ladies @ the counter, then!- made faces & just waved & said
"Just Put Them In The Proofless Cardboard Boxes arranged in the veranda!”,
that they could MAKE ALL THE PROOFS OF SUBMISSION VANISH whenever they wanted
to do it!
She was saying it as if she were talking to some street urchins who came
infront of her BEGGING FOR SOME OF HER FAMILY HELD GAS! When we repeated our
request for the PROOF again she made faces & started to talk to the other
STREET URCHINS WHO CAME THERE ASKING FOR HER FAMILY HELD GAS!
