HYDERABAD, Feb 21: The Hyderabad Hotel Sheermal Pakwan Association has asked the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited to stop excesses against the hotel owners and threatened otherwise they would stage a sit-in outside the press club and observe a token hunger strike daily after Eid till the acceptance of their demands.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club on Wednesday, the office-bearers of the association, Haji Abdur Rasheed and others said that for the last one year the hotel owners were being harassed by the company.

They complained that they were receiving wrong and highly inflated bills but the officials of the company did not want to meet an ordinary consumer.

The officials of the company were harassing the owners on the pretext of security deposit and threatening them to disconnect gas supply, they deplored.

They said that with their gas bills, they had to pay sales tax as well as Rs100 per month meter rent and added that in other provinces no such taxes were being charged.

They demanded that the tax should not be charged, illegal demand of additional security deposit should be withdrawn, gas supply should not be disconnected due to one month of default, an officer should be deputed to remain present at the office to entertain public complaints.

BISE: The Hyderabad BISE has extended the date for the receipt of enrolment forms from regular candidates and registration forms from private candidates for the higher secondary certificate part-I (class-XI) annual examination 2002.

It said the candidates could deposit their forms by March 3 with a late fee of Rs400.