SAMEER JAIN
National Engineering Industries Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
State Of Rajasthan, Through Its Secretary, Finance Department – Respondent
ORDER :
1. The present writ petition was filed by the petitioner-consumer assailing the impugned award/order dated 16.07.2019 passed by the Electricity Ombudsman, Rajasthan (for short “EO”) in Case No. EOR 457/2019 titled as ‘M/s NEI Ltd. vs. Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited’. The issue before the EO was whether the Discom-Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (for short “JVVNL”) had authority to recover transformation losses (at 3%) and pro-rata cost of Transformer, from the consumers who were falling under the category of ‘Large Industries’, on allowing increase in contract demand at lower voltage than the prescribed level of supply of voltage according to their contract demand. For reference, the prescribed voltage level for various categories of load is reproduced as under:
| Category of Consumer | Character of services | |
| g) Large Industrial (except Railway Traction) | Contract Demand | Voltage of Supply |
| i) Connected Load above 112 kW (150 HP) and/or contract/actual demand above 125 kVA but up to 1500 kVA | i) HT 11 kV | |
| ii) Contract/actual demand is above | ||
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