Jan 29, 2018
Updated by L.Kalavathi We are residents of chennai since 1950. For long the electricity board was charging us monthly bills. Later they introduced differential tariffs where we had to pay more if we crossed 100 units per month. Still later they introduced penalty rates for crossing 500 units per month.
When one shri b. Vijayaraghavan (Ias) was chairman, tneb he introduced bi-monthly billing due to shortage of collection workers or some other problem.
However the ceiling limit of 100 units and 500 units were not increased appropriately since the original rule stating per bill was left intact. Hence we
Residents of tamilnadu are suffering due to this injustice perpetrated on us.
It is impossibe for any family to exist on just 100 units for two months. And i have faced a situation where just for exceeding 500 units by less than 10 units i have had to pay heavy penalty amount. Even though the next bill showed 480 units there is so system of rewarding by refunding the penalty charges.
While working in mumbai we had to pay electricity bills monthly. By introducing the system of bi-monthly bills tneb/tangedco is penalising the ordinary consumer which is unfair and unjust.
They should appropriately increase the slab units from 100 to 200 and from 500 to 1000 units per bill. Otherwise a govt concern is profiteering from its hapless consumers. Especially since our complaints due to old cables etc.
Are given the go-by. Alternatively, tneb/tangedco can restore monthly billing.
Thanks/regards,
L. Kalavathi
Retired bank official
Chennai, tamilnadu, india
29/01/2018
L. Kalavathi