I want to draw your attention towards the un-ethical practices adopted by Wapda meter readers in many parts of the country. They punish the honest people to offset the power theft done with the connivance of Wapda officials. I have a personal experience and a dossier of complaints against wrong meter reading available with me. The modus operandi of Wapda meter reader mafia is that they send small electricity bills for some months and some times in few hundreds rupees showing few units consumed, then at once they will send a bill of huge amount after adding piled up units. .
This practice is often repeated just to fleece the poor consumer. If you go to Wapda offices, they will mostly send the same Wapda official again for rechecking the meter reading who has already noted the wrong meter reading. They have now started installing new digital meters which are awfully difficult to read and fast too. One is left at the mercy of Wapda officials for correct meter reading. My considered opinion is that Wapda officials in most of the areas are incorrigible and the consumer has to be patient to bear their excesses. There must be an unbiased institution to check the wrong-doing done by meter readers and such must be taken to task and penalized for wilful negligence.
FAROOQ BASHIR BUTT
Lahore
