The grievance expressed by way of the present Writ Petition is that the second respondent namely, TANGEDCO , provides electricity connections to domestic consumers and multiple dwelling units in the same address will have individual meters. Along with the owner of the property, the tenants, who are residing in the dwelling units, are practically the beneficiaries in respect of the scheme for subsidy in respect of the first 100 units. As per the tariff approved by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission, the subsidy is given upto 100 units as the first 100 units are free of cost. While so, by the impugned G.O, the Aadhaar authentication process is carried out. If the Aadhaar is not linked, the bill payment will not be accepted. If the respondents go ahead with the mandatory linking of Aadhaar, in spite of the scheme that multiple dwelling units in the same address be provided with separate connections with subsidy, the users of the separate dwelling units namely, the tenants/lessees, will be deprived of the benefit of subsidy as normally the additional connections are also taken in the name of the owner and if his Aadhaar is linked, the benefit of the subsidy will be restricted to only one connection.
