Completion certificate not necessary for buildings to get power connection

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has allowed Tangedco to provide power connection to buildings even without a completion certificate. However, it directed the corporation to strictly comply with the Tamil Nadu Combined Building Development Rules, 2019, while granting connections.

Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy passed the order while disposing of a plea moved by Coimbatore Consumer Cause, which sought to direct Tangedco not to provide connection without a completion certificate.

The petitioner contended that the 2019 rules specify that service connections like electricity supply, water supply and sewerage connections should not be provided for classes of buildings specified in Rule 20 thereof, unless a completion certificate is obtained from development authority.