commissioning of a new sub-station which is not covered as part of the investment plan approved by the Commission, the Licensee will have to inspect the premises of the applicant and prepare a cost estimate for the works and intimate the applicant within one month. The only requirement is to find out whether for supplying electricity to the premises of the applicant, the Licensee requires commissioning of a new sub-station which is not covered as part of the investment plan approved by the Commission. In the case on hand, it is not in dispute that though there was a sub-station, the facilities or the technical aspects of the sub-station had to be enhanced for providing the additional power load to the petitioner. Therefore, the Board proceeded on the basis and it is found by the Ombudsman that there was requirement for augmenting the facilities in the sub-station, for which an investment had to be made by the Board. Though Regulation 8(3)(a) is framed in a single sentence, after the word “commission” there is a coma, which clearly means that the words following the coma has to be read only for the purpose of preparing the cost estimate for the works. In other words, the Licensee will have to inspect the premises of the applicant only for preparing the cost estimate for the works and to intimate the applicant. The estimate for the work is not with reference to the work that are to be done in the premises of the applicant alone but the work include the additional expenditure that
