Category: Essays

From DateTo The Deputy General Manager (central),Re: Rising of electricity bills without reading of the meter. ADVERTISEMENTS: My meter No. ____________Consumer No. ____________Dear Sir,I regret to inform you that your department raises electricity bills time to time mentioning therein fabricated amount without showing any meter reading. ADVERTISEMENTS: You will please appreciate that the amount mentioned in the bills without meter reading cannot be correct pertaining to the months in which the electricity has been consumed. I am surprised to receive your electricity bill for ____________ (Amount) for the month of____________ which is a very high figure.Please be informed that my house does never remain either locked or unmanned in any month and accordingly your departmental personnel cannot return without taking meter reading,It is, therefore, requested that your departmental personnel take…

From DateTo The Assistant Engineer,Re: Request for installation of a sub-meter ADVERTISEMENTS: Dear Sir,This is to inform you that I am residing at the above premises as a tenant. The landlord has only one meter in his house. In absence of another meter I am paying electricity charges to the landlord on percentage basis which has been arbitrarily decided and I have become a loser as the electricity charge which is being paid to him by me is not on actual consumption basis.Since the landlord is not willing to get another meter installed in his premises, he has advised me to go for a sub-meter.I would, therefore, request you to arrange for installation of a sub-meter at the above premises at the very earliest so as to facilitate me to…

From DateTo The District Engineer,Re: Request for shifting electric meter to other premises. ADVERTISEMENTS: Domestic Meter No. ____________Consumer No. ____________Dear Sir,I have been continuing to pay charges for consumption of electricity in respect of the meter installed at my above address. Please be informed that I shall be shifting to my newly constructed house situated at____________ within the next seven days. ADVERTISEMENTS: I would, therefore, request you to arrange to shift the meter in question to my new residential address, as mentioned above after seven days from the date of this letter, so that I along with the members of my family have not to go without electricity in my new house after my shifting there.Thanking you,Yours faithfully, (Your Name) Image Source: autovolt-magazine.com

From DateTo The Senior Commercial Executive,Re: Discrepancy in the meter reading. ADVERTISEMENTS: Consumer No. ____________Meter No. ____________Dear Sir,It is extremely surprising to receive your electricity bill for ____________ (Amount) for the ____________ (Month). The meter reading date was shown on the bill as ____________ (Month) with meter reading as____________ No, whereas the meter reading was showing ____________ No, when I verified the meter reading personally from outside the meter box on ____________ (Date). ADVERTISEMENTS: It is not, therefore, understood how the meter reading could show ____________ No, on ____________ (Month) which must be far lesser than what I could find the reading of the meter as No, ____________ on ____________ (Date). From the factual position as stated above, you will kindly appreciate that the meter reading was taken on hypothetical…

From DateTo The Senior Commercial Executive,Re: Inflated Electricity bill ADVERTISEMENTS: Meter No. ____________Consumer No. ____________Dear Sir,It is extremely surprising to receive your electricity bill for ____________ (Amount) to be mentioned in words for the month ____________of which is an all- time very high amount. ADVERTISEMENTS: Kindly note that I have been continuing to use electricity in usual way for all the months and hence there is no point of sudden abnormal increase in the consumption of electricity in the month of. ____________For your kind information I am enclosing Xerox copies of electricity bills for the last six months and it will be found that the average monthly billing was____________.While I am making payment of your bill in question under protest, I would request you to arrange to check the meter…

From DateTo The Manager, Consumer Grievance cell. (Address) (Company Name)Re: Surrendering of meter No. ____________ Consumer No.____________ Meter type and ____________Reference installed at the premises No. ____________. ADVERTISEMENTS: Dear Sir,Kindly be informed that I have decided to wind up establishment housed at the premises ____________No. ____________on and accordingly I will not be needing supply of electricity from the meter in question to the above premises as ____________from (i.e., from the next date of winding up the establishment). It is, therefore, requested to arrange to take out the said meter from the above premises.Original of last electricity bill for the month ____________, of paid by me is enclosed. Kindly see that the cheque in respect of the amount of security deposit lying with your corporation against your meter together with interest…

To The Commissioner, Police Headquarters, (Address) (Date)Sir,With deep regret, one has to complain that in the recent months, ____________ (Place) has become the most dangerous city to inhabit with dacoity, theft, abduction and rape increasing in dangerous proportions. As a citizen, who has been living in ____________ (Place Name) since ____________ (Year) I am compelled to say that____________ (Place Name) has lost the charm and am just a Skelton of its origi­nal self. Moreover the immigrant problem is increasing by huge proportion and the migrant labour from the neighbouring states has also resulted in the pathetic state of ____________ (Place). In spite of tall claims by Police, nothing substantial has been done to control the crime. It is high time that the Police Department should do something drastic to control…

To The Chairman, (Municipality Corporation Name) (Address) (Date)Sir,This is to draw your attention towards the improper wa­ter supply in east of ____________ (Name) locality since ____________ (Date). In the morning time the water supply is for meager half- an-hour, instead of the regular three hours and during the evening, sometimes there is no water supply and when water is supplied, it is for just fifteen minutes. As a result, there is an acute crisis of drinking water, as the water pressure is very low. At times, the water is so dirty that it cannot be used for drinking purposes. The pump station people say that there is no adequate supply for the station to re-supply water. It has now been nearing a week causing inconvenience to the residents of the…

To The Concerned Authority, The Ministry of Surface Transport, (Address) (Date)Sir, ADVERTISEMENTS: I would like to draw your attention towards the high­handed attitude of bus staff plying on the bus route No. ____________, bus no. ____________, plying between ____________ (Place) to____________ (Place) in the evening of ____________ (Date), around ____________ (Time). Since two buses on the same route were ply­ing, it seemed that the above mentioned Bus No. ____________ was in a hurry to reach its destination. At ____________ (Place Name) stop, three of a family boarded the bus, when the bus started-off, leaving the other two members who were aged, to run around 100mts to board the bus. When these elderly males started telling the conductor about his misdoings, he started hurling the worst of the abuses without caring…

To The Commissioner, Municipal Corporation (Address)Sir,I, on behalf of the inhabitants of the ­­­­____________ (Place Name), respectfully request you to open a municipal dispensary in the village. ADVERTISEMENTS: The nearest dispensary is at a distance of about five km and it is difficult for the inhabitants of this small village to avail themselves of the medical aid in case of emergency.If you are kind enough to open a local dispensary, the people will be saved from going so far for the medicines.At present they simply depend on the quacks which, you will agree, is not in the interest of inhabitants. I am sure you will take necessary steps in the matter and help the poor villagers. Thanking you,Yours faithfully, (Secretary Rural uplift Committee,) (Address) Image Source: images1.laweekly.com