12 June 2021

Restrictions and responsibilities

Recently Tamilnadu Government announced stricter restrictions due to Covid Pandemic. One of them is that line staff will not be coming to consumers' residences to take meter readings of their electricity consumption and that consumers have to send photographs of their meter reading to the Assitant Engineer at the Tamilnadu Electricity Board, by WhatsApp, upon which the AE will let the consumer know the amount due to be paid. 

Although it is nearly a week since I sent my meter reading to the AE, I haven't still heard from him/her.

I think that Covid Pandemic has become an easy excuse in the hands of rogue Governments, rogue Establishements, rogue communities and rogue inndividuals to evade from basic responsibilities.

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Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.