The Hindu 29.01.2015
Power to BBMP office cut due to non-payment
Bescom officials cut power supply to the Bruhat
Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) head office on Wednesday morning as
the civic body had allegedly failed to pay power bills amounting to Rs.
10 lakh for the November–December period.
Bangalore
Electronic Supply Company (Bescom) officials disconnected supply around
10.30 a.m. when a BBMP council meeting was scheduled.
BBMP authorities immediately prepared a Demand Draft (DD) for Rs. 10 lakh following which power was restored 90 minutes later.
This
is not the first time that the civic body has been in the news for the
wrong reasons. Recently, telecom company BSNL had cut outgoing calls of
nearly 750 official mobile numbers of the BBMP after the civic body
failed to pay telephone bills for four months amounting Rs. 16 lakh.
Civic body allegedly failed to pay bills of Rs. 10 lakh for the November–December period
