Tamil Nadu Electricity Board [TNEB] Complaints & Reviews

It was the morning of August 27th, at around 6:30 AM when this happened. There was a sudden sound when I was sleeping. When I came out of my room, I saw the doom light of my hall which blasted and fell due to no specific reason. Please Check, This happened in two other flats of the same location. Address: 9/10, 2, Vepery Church Road, backside vepery police station, Rishabh Mangal Apartments, 4th floor, 4B, Vepery, Chennai-7 Ph: 26614139, [protected], [protected]

Dear Sir.. We find the electric meter shows abnormal reading. There seems to problem in the Electric Meter. Kindly depute your person urgently to inspect the same. We also feel the pillars of the Transformer infront of our house is in very damage condition and it may fall down at any point of time. It may cause serious damange to the surrounding. Request to install a compact transformer and it would be nice if it is shifted.

Request your immediate attention


with regards

CV Ganapathi Subramanian
1A, 7th Street, Balaji Nagar
Alwarthirunagar, Chennai
Phone - [protected]

Recpected sir, I sivakumar for chennai. I am living address No.22, seniamman koil st, tondiarpet, chennai-81. The above street transformer was very uncondition and damaged. It is very danger position.This current box close on small polythen cover. This street living so many childrens and samll baby. We want to change this current box location and set very safely.And i attach this current box stills also. so please kindly recover this problem. Thanks

Dear sir, I am Hariharan from Nrekundram, N.T.Patal road, I have separate meter for our 4shops in our building.In august month i got bill amount of Rs.3451. In September month also i got Rs.3089 since one shop closed in past two months. Extra charges are added in my bill, kindly let me know what is that. how can i solve this issue, kindly help me

Dear Sir i have small house in Olugamangalam Village, A.Thekkur (Po), Thiruppathur (TK), sivaganagai (Dist), Tamil Nadu My Door Number 323/II The electricity board gave current without my knowledge this door current in which name please tell me who is a name of current holder, , , , thanking u saravanan

we have submitted written complaints regarding the function of new electronic meter to our house 15 days back to chrompet electricity office. No one has yet visited yet to verify/inspect the meter. we feel that the meter is showing excess. address 10 vivekananda street, g1 violet villa, gandhi nagar, chrompet, chennai 600044

This is Regarding frequent disconnection of Power Supply in Ramapuram, Manapakkam Main Road Area (Parthasarathy Nagar) in Chennai. Atleast 4 times in a day Power Goes off. There is no specific times, Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night etc This is major place in a city were u have DLF IT park and L&T Companies, not a remote place. Can there be any Permanent Solution for Power Cut. During Summer it is acceptable but throughout the year without any time, it is really unacceptable.

For the past three occasions your assessor not came to my house for billing.After my intimation she create the bill, then I have remit the same by net banking.In this regard I have made so many complaints in your web site, but it was vain.On 27.08.2014 I have received one alert in my email about one bill for my ground floor connection with notification of door lock, but my wife was available in my house on 26th and 27th August 2014.I came to understand Your assessor Smt.Indhumathi is newly recruited and not having sufficient awareness about billing.Every time of billing we should intimate the meter reading to smt.Deepa another assessor, because Indhumathi is having a habit of non attend the phone.I am having two connections 1. [protected], 2. [protected].My house very near to your Devakottai TNEB office.My mobile No is [protected].

Dear sir, I have been served with a bill of INR2, 565/- for using 626 units of electricity for service no:[protected] at 90 Lake view road west mambalam, Chennai -33 by Tamil nadu electricity board. The house is locked as my wife and child have joined with me in Lagos, Nigeria where I have been working. I do not know when a house is locked, how such a crazy bill can be demanded when there is no usage. Please revise the bill which will be paid immediately thro online. As me and my family are away, we cannot give any complaints personally in India, till we come back. In view of the above, please send nominal charges for keeping the electrical connection to my house, till we come back. Billing details: Service No :[protected] Name :C.RAJAGOPAL Amount Due (Rs.) :2565 Due Date :30-AUG-14 Reply to earlier complaint No[protected], asking for contacting the local EB office is something impossible due to the territorial dislocation of me and family.

Dear Sir I have additionally billed Rs.1000/- plus, because of this wrong update of reading date. The exact reading date should be 19/07/2014 instead of 19/06/2014. Please help to correct this date as soon as possible. I have already given complaint letter regarding this on 26/08/2014 to the concerned EB Office. I have furnished my consumer number below please do the need full in this regard. Consumer Number:[protected] Regards Sudhakar B Cell:- [protected]

Sir, I am a resident of Nehru Nagar, Kajamalai, Tiruchirappalli-23.For the past 1 month from evening 6pm till morning 10am there is serious low and high voltage power fluctuation in our area. All the electric equipments are getting damaged and during night, even fan could not run due to very low and high voltage supply.This happens especially in the evenings and stays throughout night. The situation continues. This has led to faults in many of household appliances. In some instances the appliances have even burnt out. Before something worse happens please take immediate action. Thanks, S.Kannan Advocate.

This complain is in regards to regular electricity failure in sanyassipuram 1st street medavakkam tank area, kilpauk, every day there is either cable fault or cut down of electricity for hours( 12 -13 hrs) no response from the electricity board to sort the problem repeated calling and informing also has no result i have a family old mother in house every night we cant sleep because of electric failure what is the govt of tamil nadu.doing sleeping or having inefficient people in the board Pathetic condition never seen in any city worst electricity board and govt is sleeping i request the chief Minister to take a step to stop this issue and help the local public to have a peacefull life to live

Worst behaviour from EB workers and Assistant Engineeer- Rajakilpakkam. Service No: [protected] Consumer Name: ES Nalini Tenant: Balaji, Siva, Vamsi. We were not able to pay a bill on time because of some situation. We hope current connection should be disconnected or fuse carrier should be taken by EB dept. At least it should be informed to us prior. But below are insulting words and Scolding we got from AE and EB workers of...

I m a resident of mgr nagar, velachery. We are facing very frequent power cuts that too during night times when compared to day. As per the confirmation from our CM, we are not going to have any power cuts further more. But we can see the situation getting worse every day. As you know velachery is located near IT parks and most of them residing here are working class of people. It is very difficult to manage work at office after sleepless nights. Please help to resolve the issue on power cuts during night times at the earliest

Sir/Madam, There are 7 flats in our apartment. We have a common meter of which consumer ref : [protected]. And we all the flat owners proportionately divide and share the EB charges against this common connection. But unfortunately we have recently noticed that this common EB connection is being misused by one of the flat owner for long time as the name of the EB connection is in his father's name ( earlier he was the land owner). And...

Sir, My consumer details are consumer name M.Thirunavukkarasu NO.12, Silambani south street Devakottai-630302 contact no[protected]..Our meter is not working properly sine the new electronic meter has been fixed from my house since october2013..I Wish to inform you that i am newly construct my house Ist floor.At that time i have changed my tariff No I To TARIFF No V .Due to my mistake i have not changed from tariff no V to tariff no I From February 2014 I had changed the tariff no V.to tariff no.I . I had remit the EB charges Rs.3494. We gave the complaint to the AE of our area.But he refused .Next time April 2014 reading medam told the meter was not functioning, Immediately i came to EB office and contact the concerned clerk he says please pay the amount Rs.2071. I was remit the amount on7.5.2014.Next again the June month 2014 reading Rs.3450.Again i was met the AE of our area .He says please pay the amount Rs.3450/.I was remit the amount Rs.3450 on 04.07.2014 Till date the matter was not solved for the past four months. I REQUEST YOU TO KINDLY SOLVE THE PROBLEM IF NECESSARY CHANGE THE METER IMMEDIATELY. Thank you with regards M.Thirunavukkarasu

Sir,[protected] A/E Anakaputhur, J.W. Michael, No.25, Thiruneermalai Road Kamarajapuram, Chennai 600 070.
Meter reading 200 paid for 207units Dated 08.04.2014,
Meter reading 200 to 460 Paid for 260 units Dated 13/06/2014.
For seven units payment is made twice, Nothing is pending from previous readings, Authorities apporached No response.

Hi, I am gunasekaran residing in No.23/30, vellala street, villivakkam, chennai-49 . we have 3 phase connection.there's is no power in one phase out of three phases.i think the power line is disconnected from the post. We have already lodged complaint with the local eb office. But nothing happened.. Please advise the local eb men to check on this. Regards, Gopinath

Dear sir/ Madam, I am Gopinath.D working as a sales manager in Health care company, and am living in below adress from last 25 years, my adress is v.kaikatti, pirampatty post, manapparai taluk, trichy district - 621305.( comes under the Thuvarankurichy EB circle) here i mention the problem of my area Electric post was very poor condition. In my area there are 10 families are living and more childrens are playing in that place. In the year between[protected] the NH -45 process was undergone that time the EB work also gone, but the process is not performed as well as, bcoz the officers are doing a iilegal work and put the transforms in a normal land and put some amount sand to stand that the transforms that time our people's are given the warning the officers, this transform post was a not good condition so please do the work in proper condition, but the officers are not heard our words and do a careless work. Now a days we are given more complaints to the local AO officers but they are not show the interest. But they are ask about the money for changing the transform. Is there any fees need to pay for that changing the transform, if it present in road side. Long time we noticed its very damage condition, in the raining season it will cause the very sever problem, its also a childrens playing area. if any death caused by that transform, the Electricity board only full on full responsible for that. please do the needfull reply to me and take severe action also otherwise it will cause more death. p[lease take action. Regards, Gopinath.D v.kaikatty, mob : [protected]

Request to remove the branches of the tree falling and scratching on the high tension three phase power supply lines at Bharathi salai, Ponni nagar, Karambakkam Porur, of zone No.XI, Ward No.150 of Chennai Corporation. Due to rainy season, and to avoid critical Condition of power supply lines, immediate actIon is requested to save the lives and properties. Request has been given to Chennai corpn.vide No.794 AHH Dt. 14.8.2014 and to the AE TNEB O&M Karambakkam section. Yours ffly, V. Gobinath, 4/4, Bharathi salai, Ponni nagar, Karambakkam, Porur. Mobile [protected] [protected]@gmail.com