To, The Chief Electrical Engineer
Govt of Goa Attn: Smt. Reshma Mathew ( CEE) Dear Madam, On behalf of residents of Bay View colony, I met you on Thursday ( 11th Jan 2019) in your chamber and submitted our grievances orally regarding power supply failures at our Bay View and whole of Dona Paula which is quite often. It is learned through the newspapers that the supply will soon be stabilized in the whole of Goa and if anyone having problems they could contact Mob No. 9822103292. It so happens immediately on 10th Jan the supply at the whole of Dona Paula especially at Bay View had a power failure around 10:30 am for a half an hour or so. I called up this number and this mobile was picked up by Power Minister Nilesh Cabral who was kind enough to look into our problems and he soon contacted the Electricity officials from the dept Executive Engineer Mr. Rajagopalan who is looking after this area and he subsequently called me on the same day at 8 pm. I gave him a full technical description of our area of various power supply failures on electrical lines. The following is our problem: 1) The power supply was always intermittent and many times used to remain off for a long times. The power shutdown was a common phenomenon. 2) The supply was either lower than ( 200V) or high voltages than ( 270volts) and sometimes no supply in one of the phases. 3) The lines wiring from pole to pole in our area are very much loose and having joints at various places. 4) Also, they pass through some of the private properties which needed to be rectified and the electric pole also found bent due to the weight and non alignment of wires. On account of this our kitchen/house appliances like refrigerators, Microwave oven, Geyser, Mixer and stabilizers were going faulty. Now, considering all these problems now in future we may be facing the worst situation very soon if the electrical connection is given to this illegal building which is coming up at Bay View colony. I was told they are waiting for a temporary connection to start with the job. This construction has already been raised to the ground and all the approvals cited on the board are issued by the authorities which are put up in their main gate. (Enclosed approvals). It is funny that the House number is not shown on this approvals but I understand the house No is: C/ 22/111. The area of construction is about 500 sq meters having plans for ground plus 8 floors with swimming pool and having adjacent road merely 3 meters broad. If such construction comes up in the residential area what will be our fate when no such high rise construction is seen in this colony. Not only the traffic will be paralyzed plus water and electricity will be a great burden to the residents of this Bay View, Dona Paula. For your information, this construction actually falls under Taleigao Panchayat jurisdiction and just to get higher FAR they managed to convince the authorities because house taxes were paid to CCP earlier and not Panchayat hence the licenses are already issued by NGPDA, CCP, Health, Fire services, and Sub-Div Engr Elect S/D- IV . This proposed construction is coming up at residential area with swimming pool and compound wall at Chalta No. 25 PT sheet 186 plot No. 07 at Dona Paula for D.S. Contractors Pvt Ltd. The first license to issue was by NGPDA on 5.12. 2017 and the CCP license came on 8.11.2018 but in fact, the NGPDA should have waited after CCP giving license because the construction falls on Panchayat jurisdiction and not on CCP. All the houses in this line are on Panchayat and the house taxes are been paid for many years to Taleigao Panchayat with exception of this illegal house. The residents feel this construction should be revoked and Electrical connection and approvals need to be revised as I understand that the power connection is quite high to be around 2500 KW for 8 floors. Whereas at Panchayat the FAR and the power will be much less even if the underground cabling comes into existence our problem will still remain. Yours faithfully Sd/ STEPHEN DIAS Date: 15th Jan 2019 Mob: 9422443110 (On behalf of resident of Bay View) and also {enclosed signatures} Copy to: 1) Executive Engineer Elect Dept Mr. C. H. Rajagopalan 2) Commissioner of CCP 3) Mayor 4) Minister of Tourism 5) Chief Secretary 6) MLA of Panjim and Taleigao 7) Sarpanch of Taleigao Panchayat 8) Traffic Cell / Dy Suptd of Traffic Police/DGP 9) File