Mahanagar Gas Complaints & Reviews

I am a customer of Mahanagar Gas Ltd in Mumbai, and has regularly paid their bills.
I had received the excess bill for the month of February 2011 from Mahanagar Gas Ltd for about 2500/-. Immediately I placed the complaint through phone to their customer service. There after I received the revised bill of Rs 256.00 for February 2011 with a due date of[protected].
I made the payment via cheque dated[protected] well in advance of the due date. The cheque was cleared on[protected]. The reason for delay at Mahanagar Gas Ltd is unknown.
I was been informed on phone that total of 1856.00 is due and will charge the delayed payment charges as the cheque has been cleared after due date. There after placed a written complaint to Mahanagar Gas Ltd, and continuously following up on emails for clarification of arrears and waiver of delayed payment charges.
Recently I have received the bill for month of March 2011 with the arrears of 1856.00 with the delayed payment charges of Rs 139.18.
For no fault of mine Mahanagar Gas Ltd is charging me delayed payment charges and is not clarifying the reason for such a huge arrears.

I have already written a complaint on this forum and I got reply from the MGL Support that they have forwarded the complain to the concerned dept, and surely the next day digging was started for 15minutes and supervisors left, later the workers left after next 15 minutes, that shows MGL was just showing it is doing work and then no one reporting again.

From the way the work is going it is observed MGL must have got the licences to operate and run business like the 2G scamsters where the license was taken without intention of doing business but take the license and sell it in black,similarly MGL hands over the job to lower vendors who will do the job and deliver the product and support, so MGL is just a middle agent (broker) who is interested in making money and also it is on gaining by taking deposit from the consumers and get the interest from that money it does not state the time-frame of installation or any penalty to itself if there is delay for installation.

I think MGL should be put on scanner for business malpractices and Scam

Dear Sir,
This is to bring to your kind attention that I have been billed excessively for the month of December 2010. My Bill Amt. is Rs.4,562.

I am a Senior Citizen and am very well aware of the consumption / usage of gas for my household purposes / daily chores. The billing for the preceding months is a testimony to the above stated fact.

I am not in a position to pay such an exorbitant amount that rightfully and genuinely doesn’t belong to me.

I am not interested in the rectification being done in the next bill wherein the units will be reversed & accordingly rectified bill shall be generated & dispatched subsequently as per my billing cycle. I will not be paying the requisite amount as being a senior citizen I am not in a position to do so. Besides the said bill doesn’t belong to me.

It was clearly communicated to me by your customer care staff that within a week’s time duly rectified bill will be despatched at my address. I have not yet received the same. I reaffirm that I will not be hesitant even remotely to discontinue my connection with you if you don’t send me the proper rectified bill.

Due to gross negligence on your part you have send us an inflated bill for Rs.4,562. I request you to cancel the present bill and send us the rectified bill immediately to enable us to pay the rectified amount before the due date i.e. 24/01/2011.

Again I would also like to point out that nobody from your side had turned up for meter reading for the last so many months.

Thus, I being a Senior citizen should not be punished for no fault of mine.

Please treat this matter as MOST URGENT.My average bill in the past has merely been in the range of Rs.250-400 or so.

My Details:
Name: Vasantha Ramachandran
Tel. No.[protected]
CA:[protected]
Bill Group:MCO10843
Bill No.[protected]
Bill For: December 2010
Bill Dated: 08/12/2010
BP: [protected]
Amt. Due: Rs.4,562

Regards,
Vasantha Ramachandran

Rohit Kumar R. Pandey
Advocate, High Court
304/E/2, N.G. Park,Shiv Vallabh Cross Road, Rawal Pada, Dahisar (E),
Mumbai – 400 068. Cell.[protected]
Res. 2896 9303
______________________________________________________________________

6th December, 2010

To,
The Concern Authority,
Billing Department,
Mahanagar Gas Ltd.

Ref: BP. No. [protected]
CA. No.[protected]
Bill: November, 2010
_______________________

Sub: Higher Bill
**************************

Sir/ Madam,
This is in reference to your dispatched bill for the month of November 2010, which is much higher, as such I address you this letter to you as fallows:
1. The bill stands in the name of my father Mr. Ram Lalit Brijraj Pandey and I am staying with my father, and availing/Consuming your service of PNG.
2. Since beginning of the PNG Connection when I have not got any bill from your side even after passing of five to six months then I personally enquired to your Bandra office and came to know that the due to incomplete address you are sending my bill some where else. Then I rectify the mistake and subsequently received the Bill of Rs. 889/- which I have paid and received the acknowledgement in your next Bill.
3. Subsequently, I have got the Second bill amounting to Rs.381/-, for the month of January 2010, which I have paid on 17.02.2010 and time meter reading was 93A.
4. After that, I have got another bill for the month of Rs. 1619/- which I have avoid to pay as the bill was to much high and made complaint to tour office. Later, I got Bill for the moth of May, 2010 amounting of Rs. 407/- which I have paid on 28.05.2010 before the due date, that time the meter reading was 119.
5. Subsequently, I have received one bill which I have not paid because my query was pending in respect of the higher bill and after that I have received another bill for the moth of September, 2010 amounting of Rs. 1184/-. Kindly note that the September month bill I have received after the due date hence the bill not been pain as I was awaiting another bill for payment. The meter reading was 189 A in the month of September, 2010.
6. Subsequently, two days before on 4th December, 2010, I have received the Bill amounting to Rs. 3125/- which is much, much higher. Kindly note that the my family consist of only four members two adults and two small kids below six years old. Just think, if bill for four months came Rs.1184/- and after two months bill increases three times more.
7. Kindly note that, I am an Advocate by profession and every time I never get time to see such small tings but here the questions of failure of system and mechanism. I further state that either you are deliberately sending more bills or sending bill just an assumption.
8. It is pertinent to note that, since beginning of the PNG Connection, your man came to take meter reading only two times till date but came to collect the cheque so many times. Kindly note that, when my family consists eight members that time I was using cylinder and that one cylinder I consume one and half months, it means if I was using one cylinder that time the Expenses on one of Rs. Nearly 300/- and when my family consist only two adult two kids, the bills are coming so much high. It means that either you are not functioning proper or your mechanism is fail.
9. Similarly, I made complaint some months before for and on behalf of my neighbor Mr. Vijay Jadhav. In his case, he got the bill of Rs. 2500/- only for two months and after making complaint you send bill of Rs. 500/- after rectification. It itself shows you are sending bill carelessly and just based on assumption.
10. In this way, I am not expecting any better service to your kind selves but at least send proper bills. Inspite of this, in my surroundings, most of the person cut the connection of PNG due to higher bill and inadequate service and most of the society refuse to take the connection of the PNG.
11. Lastly, in this premise, I once again request you and remind you, kindly look into this matter at the earliest and try to improve your inadequate systems. I further state that every time I don’t have time to do only these work to remind you and make complaint in respect of the same. Otherwise, I shall constrain to take legal action against you before consumer forum at your own costs.

Yours truly

Rohit R. Pandey
(Advocate)


C.C. to Head Office by Courier

I received a incorrect invoice from MGL for Rs 939
CA No.[protected]
Bill for sept ' 10
Bill No.[protected]
Bill Amount Rs 939
Thus far my billing amount trends have been
1. May Units (20) Rs 272
2. Jul Units (24) Rs 364
3. Sept (17) Bill should be much less than Rs 939(incorrect invoice)

I lodged a comnplain and unique docket / complain number is 502672 & BP no is [protected].

MGL failed to sent me a correct bill yet paid them Rs 300, transaction details MHDF[protected] dated 26th sept 2010.

MGL sents a me tyhe next bill in Nov 2010 Bill No.[protected] with a Arrear charges of Rs 439.87
MGL have neither acknowledged Rs 300 paid by me yet incorrecly charging Arrears for their own negligence of incorectness in invoice.
Request please raise with MGL higher authority to streamline their accounting process and not overcharge customers through improper means.

Sanjoy Chatterjee
[protected]@rediffmail.com

I am a senior citizen aged 64 years.
In my flat the meter is installed by MGL and pipe line is brought up to flat 2 months back. The connection from the VALVE to the GAS STOVE is not made by MGL.Despite dozens of reminders and follow up with the concerned person Mr.Dinesh no action is taken only promises are given.
All payments to the MGL are already made.
Kindly help me solve the problem.
Regards,

Sureshkumar.K.Patel.
2001, Atri Tower,
Saptarshi Park, Swapna Nagari.
Mulund(W),Mumbai-400080.
Cell: [protected].

I am a senior citizen aged 64 years.
In my flat the MGL has fitted meter 2 months back but the final connection between the VALVE and GAS STOVE is not yet done.For last two months I have been reminding them. One Mr. Dinesh comes and inspects and promises to do the needful in 2-3 days and then vanishes! All their payments are already made.
Kindly help me in getting the connection.
Regards,
Sureshkumar.K.Patel
Flat No.2001,Atri Tower,Saptarshi Park.
Swapna Nagari, Mulund(W).
Mumbai-400080.
[protected]

MAHANAGAR GAS HAS PUBLISHED A CUSTOMER SERVICE NOS WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD A LIE AS THEIR ARE IS NO HUMAN WHO IS REACHEABLE TO SPEAK WITH FOR ANY ANYKIND OF COMPLAINTS OR QUERIES THAT A CONSUMER MAY HAVE.SO FAR I FEEL THAT MAHANAGAR GAS IS THE BIGGEST CHEAT.

TO WHOMSOEVER IT MAY CONCERN THIS IS A COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHANAGAR GAS LTD PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FROM MGL DONT COME TO TAKE METER READING AND THE BILLING DEPARTMENT SENDS BILLS WHICH ARE EXTREMELY HIGH NOT AFFORDABLE , I HAVE BEEN GETTING BILLS WHICH AT TIMES SHOW NO USEAGE CHARGES NO CONSUMTION AND YET HIGH BILL IS SEND THE LAST BILL THAT I RECEIVED SHOWS CONSUMTION CHARGE OF 57 UNITS WHICH IS THEN MULTIPLIED BY 17.86 PER UNIT CHARGE HENCE BY BILL CHARGED AMOUNT IS 1018.02 I HAVE TIME AGAIN COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS BUT THE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE NEGLECT ME BEING QUIET IGNORANT ALSO THEY ARE ADAMANT SAY THIER IS NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE AND I NEED TO PAY THIS BILL TO AVOID DISCONNECTION. MGL HAS BEEN UNEQUAL TO ITS CONSUMERS WHEN WE PURCHASED THE CONNECTION THE RULE THEY SAY WAS AMT 5000 PAID IS NOT REFUNDABLE AND NOW THEY HAVE STARTED A NEW POLICY WHERE IN CONNCETION CHARGE IS REFUNDABLE WHICH IS UNFAIR. I WANTED TO GAVE MY MGL SERVICE DISCONNECTED BUT I AM TOLD I CANT GET MY MONEY BACK.SO I AS AN CONSUMER IS TOTALLY AT LOST A CHECK AND MATE SITUATION I END PAYING THE HIGH BILL AND HAVE TO BEAR THE LOSS OF NOT GETTING MY DEPOSIT AMT ALSO BACK. I REPENT TAKING SERVICES FROM MAHANAGAR GAS WHO I FEEL ARE A TOTAL CHEAT.PLEASE TAKE SEVER ACTION AGAINST THEM.I HOPE I COULD HAVE STAYED WITH BHARAT GAS AT LEAST I KNOW THAT I AM PAYING A FIXED COST OF RS 350.

My mother a Sr.Citizen, Aged 93 yrs.has a Mahanagar Gas connection. Mahanagar Gas has installed the Meter etc but have not connected the gas supply.

She has written letters which were hand delivered to their Bandra Kurla Complex office, she has sent emails to their Customer Service for the past THREE MONTHS and all they do is to send a standard reply as follows:
Reproduced below is one of their many standard email replies form their customer Care
.
From: Support <[protected]@mahanagargas.com>
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Request No: 427637 & 427717 & 438759
To: "'Kevin De Silva'" <[protected]@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Tuesday, 26 October, 2010, 2:55 PM

Dear Sir / Madam,

This is an acknowledgement for the mail sent by you.

The context of the mail has been once again forwarded to the concerned dept for further resolution / action.

Your unique docket / complain number is 536673 & BP no is [protected].

Regards,
Customer Care,
Mahanagar Gas Limited.

I hope some can help

Reagrds,
K.De Silva.
Son of
Mrs Lyra A De Silva.
Bandra West,
Mumbai. 400050

Name - Nilesh Narayan Dalvi
Pipe Gas Connection at New House
CA - [protected]
BP - [protected]
Prev CRN No - 1002734

Pipe Gas Connection at old House
CA - [protected]
BP - [protected]

As mentioned above, i have 2 pipe gas connections ( 1 at my old house & other one at my new house )

My average gas bill amount at my old house over last 2-3 years was around 150 - 200 rupees maximum. but now all of sudden i am receiving bills with excessive meter reading & unacceptable bill amounts of Rs. 500/- per months.

This is absolutely wrong & not acceptable at all.

Please take / initiate strong action against this.

Thanks & regards.

Nilesh Dalvi
[protected]
[protected]@rediffmail.com

Dear Sir,

I have applied for new pipe line Gas connection in the name of Sunil Sagvekar (No. AF 019213 / 910) with DD of Rs. 6000/- on 14th July 2010. The Concern person of Contractor assured us that connection will be fitted within 45 days. Now even after more than 2 months period, connection is not fitted. Despite of continuous follow up with Mr Ansari (contractor) till date no updates on the new connection.
It is very surprising, the contractor was asking us Rs.500/- extra (at the time of application of new connection) if we require connection within 8 days. If he can manage to give connection within 8 days after receiving extra Rs.500/- then why the connection is not fitted even after two months? (by paying regular amount)?
Kindly look in the matter.

In August 2010, I recv. a bill from MGL with charge of Rs. 50/- as compensation for shortfall. I was also surprised that the Meter reading was shown zero.
I called up to support service where I was informed that since their person had visited my house thrice but door was locked hence they have taken average consumption and it shows zero reading. (In MGL the mathematics seems little poor where Avg meter consumption is Zero. Does any body got an answer Zero in any average method). I was not ready to accept the argument that person had come thrice, so demanded the dates when he has visited, and they had no answer when the visit was made (They how come three visit is calculated)
Further, they infomed that as there is no reading a charge of Rs. 50/- as compensation for shortfall is billed as per co. policy.
Dear Friends, can you understand the methodology adopted by co. to charge custmer Rs. 50/- randomly. Since amount is not big, generally customer shall pay this PENALTY.
Now, just understand how a big name multinational co. is playing smartly to pick pocketing by small amount charges which generally customer shall not pay attention to.

Corruption is inseparable from India. India is corruption personified. In India looking for honesty is like trying to find a virgin in a maternity labour ward.

MGL is one of the several agents of corrupt practices that makes India what it is today. Providing Piped Natural Gas (PNG) is one of the (dis)services it offers its customers in Mumbai and its satellite cities.

I subscribed to its PNG service that was started in March 2010. After installation my family members found that the gas burners on the stove would get extinguished when turned to SIM mode.

Complaining to MGL and to its agencies proved a miserable experience and gave only headaches while there was absolutely no work done to rectify the deliberate error by MGL. The deliberate error is simply a corrupt method of making the customer suffer and then make money by fleecing him/her. This is standard Indian practise. Complaining to the Police or going to the Courts only compound the problem. The problem is solved only if you use strong methods or quietly pay up money.

MGL is putting the lives of several customers at risk by adopting this corrupt method simply to make some loose change. And this loose change assumes mammoth volume considering the volume of customers they cheat in a month or an year. Safety and Security of its users are compromised.

Do not tolerate this. Speak up. Take action. For your and your family welfare. This country will not do this for you. Nobody will. You yourself will have to.

Please prevent a Bhopal in Bombay

Beware Mumbaikars and its suburbs. Your safety and life is at risk. This time it is the disservice of MGL that may put you and your family at risk. It could kill your neighbours too. Please pay attention.

When you changed over from LPG gas cylinder usage to using the piped PNG offered by MGL if you noticed that your stove burners get extinguished after putting them on ‘SIM’ mode you are at grave risk. You must take immediate steps to keep you and your family safe.

PNG operates at a lower pressure than LPG. Therefore the technicians that install PNG increase the orifice diameter of the stove burner nipples (that are designed for LPG use). But, if they also do not make a corresponding increase in the gas-cock you would face the problem I described.

The technicians try to fleece consumers by demanding extra charges for doing this or they may simply not have the time to do all this work (depending on which part of the metropolis you are located or how educated or how strong you are at voicing your concerns). MGL cannot absolve itself of this service liability and any untoward happening will be sad. They charge us and do not do charity after all.

What is the point in inviting Bhopal to Bombay? And no dead comes back to life. Breast-beating and head-banging is useless after an accident.

The courts take lifetimes and justice-delivery is skewed in India. Buyer Beware.

Venkatesh Naidu

hi,
This is Hardik Sanchla son of Shantilal V. Sanchala from kandivali(west) using mahanagar gas my meter
no. 11037357 /CA no.[protected]. i was paying around 400 rupee per 2 mnth till now on
mahanagar's bill but this mnth in june i recive the bill of 9657 rupee how could it be posible ? and i had made the payment of last april mnths bill.
I contacted to mahanagar office in kandivali (east) they told me you have to make the
payment but when i asked how i got this much bill amount then they told me we are giving an
estimated bill till now, i showed them my previous bill's they told me this are all estimated. I am not capable to make this payment.
And now i hav got a letter tellin we will disconect gas service.
please gave me suggestion's or help me ...

shantilal sanchala
([protected])

Sir,
I am customer of Mahanagar Gas and my consumer number is :[protected].

My MGL bill for the month of Jan '10 was a credit bill which was generated @rate of Rs. 11.13/- per unit. While the debit bill for the past and all future months are generated @rate of Rs. 12.09/- per unit.

I have brought this inconsistency in billing rate to the company many times but have not received appropriate response from them. Every time I send them a mail they just reply back with a new complain number. Below is the list of complaint numbers that I have been given for the same matter:
354607, 347772, 327945, 324648, 324673,319392,362158,363260,372272 ,383880, 389299,394258 , 403506.
I have been following up with the company for the past three months, but to no avail. It is a matter of clear customer harassment from MGL. I have had as many as 28 to 30 mails back and forth but everytime it has been without any resolution. I can send you a copy of the mail trail in case required.

Also , I would like to bring to your notice that no meter reading has been done on our premises for the past one year and all bills have been approximated. And it is due to this reason that they had sent me a credit bill for the month of Jan, when the actual bill should have been a debit bill.

Please let me know what needs to be done with regards to my complaints.

Hi,
I have applied for GAS pipeline in month of November 24th 2009 but did not received a gas pipeline till date.
i have received a relationship letter [protected].
Please treat this on priority. They taken cheque from us and till date no GAS.
what is going on?


Regards,
Shailesh Mehta
Cell: [protected].

I have applied for permanent Gas Disconnection of Mahanagar Gas Ltd. on 10.02.10 in person at Kandivali Office. I have copy of acknowledgement. Yesterday, I got call from Mr.Swaraj of Mahanagar Gas (Cell No.[protected]) regarding payment of Rs.550/- as disconnection charges. Here my complaint is inspite of giving some refund (Rs.5000/- were deposited before 1.1/2 year back) for disconnection to customer, how Mahanagar Gas can ask charges for disconnection of Gas connection? Is this the monopoly effect? Here MGL is taking benefit because they are the only supplier of pipeline gas.I have already applied for new connection by depositing Rs.6,000/- at my new residence before one month. Nothing is happening for new gas connection also. I dont know how this Company is working? Nobody is their at Kandivali to respond. Only the Receptionist is attending all call/complaints and PROs lines are always busy. They never take calls. Can anybody help me out this? - Avadhoot Patil - Cell: [protected].

i send cheque to mahanagar gas against bill no. of rs 216/-. In the nxt bill they are charging me of rs200 of dishonuring chq & rs25 for dlay payment chg.I found with my bank no chq is coming to my bank.after that they reply to me your bank is not there where the chq address written on the chq .but i did paid all the chq to mahanagar gas from the first day & surprisngly i paid a chqwith same branch of mahanagar gas collection centre.please they are not listening to us help us