More than 150 families with young children and aged people are living without electricity and water in the upmarket Mayfield Gardens residential township here since Thursday after the developer abruptly stopped the power supply to them. The affected families do not have regular connections and were being supplied electricity through generators.
A First Information Report has also been registered against the developer, Today Homes, at the Sadar police station on charges of criminal breach of trust and cheating. Five persons have been named in the FIR.
Amit Gupta, one of the residents of Princeton Floors, told The Hindu that the developer had in a notice three days ago informed them about immediate withdrawal of electricity supply, following which they met him and requested him to reconsider his decision.
“The developer told us that he had got a notice from some department and therefore decided to withdraw the power supply through generator. When we requested him to reconsider the decision, he assured us to look into the matter all over again. But the power supply was cut on Thursday afternoon, leaving us in the lurch. We did not get water supply as well,” said Mr. Gupta. The residents then reported the matter to the police.
Mr. Gupta said the developer had given them a written undertaking at the time of possession of the property to supply them power through generator at Rs.8 per unit as regular connections were not available.
More than 3,000 families, including the affected 150 families in the present case, in three different colonies of the township are deprived of regular electricity connections because of the alleged failure of the developers to put in place adequate electrical infrastructure as per the norms. They are totally dependent on generators and inverters for power supply. The residents are paying through the nose and the arrangement is also harming the environment with over 3,000 litre of diesel being used daily to maintain the power supply.
The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam has stopped releasing new connections to the township due to non-fulfilment of commitments by developers.
“This is unfair to the hapless residents and consumers who pay huge sums of money at the time of booking of the unit only to later discover that there is no civic and power infrastructure,” said Commander (Retd.) Dharam Vir Yadav, senior vice-president of Joint Action Forum of Residents’ Association.
