Tamil Nadu Electricity Board [TNEB] Complaints & Reviews

We used to reside in anna nagar, there everything is hi-fi, good power, good water etc. We shifted to north madras, ie, kolathur (near the padi flyover) area a few months back. There i have constructed my own building a commercial space and behind it my house, a residential space. This is what i have noticed:

Power -

Extremely problematic, with highly irregular voltage surges that causes severe malfunction to...

Dear Sir/Madam,

Daily there is power cuts during the night time and this has been happening this summer. After making noise and road blocking it was ok for a week and the same problem of power cuts during the night hours has been there from one month. Daily complaints and its been sorted out but then again the same problem is arising. The EB staffs are working daily in our line cable at different spots.

Its...

Very low voltage persists in our area Kodambakkam for the past many months. It has caused a lot of damage to electrical and electronic equipments in my home frequently. It is found that TNEB does not have the knowhow to maintain voltage & frequency for the domestic power set for India. That is understandable because of being low skilled, but what is attrocious is that they lack any kind of responsibility.

I called their...

We have been lodging a complaint at Electricity board complaint number 155333 regarding low voltage in pulianthope high road from past 3 days but there is no response on the same from anyone. The are AE and AD are so irresponsible that they do not even pick up calls on the mobile phone provided by call center. Even the fans are not working. Things can go wrong for a day but not so long. Why don't people work at least for the salary which...

Low voltage for the last 2 months

I am residing in Andal Nagar, Adambakkam. Here low voltage for the last 2 months, Our Association had raised a complaint regarding the issue and the TNEB officials had stated that a new sub-station is the solution. However as a temporary solution thay had offered to install a transformer in the area. THey had installed poles for the transformers about 4 months back. Still they have not installed...

Sir,

My father Late K.Hamsa was a T.N.E.B Employee with pension PPO #: 23247 holder. He passed away 10 months before. We submitted all the required documents in several times at IOB bank, kottakkalbranch, kerala as per bank request to transfer into my mother’s name. but bank says we are not getting any response from T.N.E.B audit department.

I am humbly requesting you to please kindly help me in transferring...

Voltage Fluctuations
Hi,

I reside at Mugalivakkam, a few kms away from Porur, & Guindy in Chennai which comes under chennai City Centre. I've been observing very high margin of voltage fluctuation in my flat here. I just bought an AC and invested in a double booster, however it still doesn ot help. My double booster has an LCD display and I observed input voltage can go down to as low as 90V--110V! Less than...

I am living at Subbiah Nagar, Iyyappanthangal, Chennai. We are getting very low voltage in our region from 7:00 Pm to 3:00 Am. Sometimes we have a power cut during night times for about 1-3 hrs. Due to this all the electrical appliances are getting affected. Last week my AC compressor was badly damaged and I was advised to replace the old compressor. We have already given n number of complaints to EB department but no one really cares and...

Respected sir,

i am living at vellore. I used to pay tneb bill at online bill payment. On may 14, i tried to pay my bill at online. when i entered all the details of the debit card and clicked pay button. after some times i noticed FORBIDDEN ACCESS/ILLEGAL TRANSACTION on the tneb homepage. so i tried thrice. after seeing it the next day i noticed that the money has been debited thrice. please help to re credit...

I am residing in Kamadhenu nagar (Perungalathur). Here low voltage for the last 3 weeks, I made a complaint to the TNEB phone# +[protected], They didn't resolve this issue last 4 weeks. This is really unbearable, NO FAN, NO AC during night and my computer went faulty, lost one stabilizer, this is really frustrating.

Nobody responding properly. Can someone help me to escalate this to higher authorities?

Regards,br...

dear sir,
This is amudha from thanjavur. I paid my eb bill amount of Rs.213 through online payment by selecting the indian bank debit card option and I paid my fees but it got failure and i tried for 3 times but i got same failure for those 3 transactions. I reported to the bank for this tranaactions but they are asking the failed transaction id for that payment. I dont know how to get the failed transact id. kindly take...

I am a retired Assistant Post Master General residing at the Plot No.79, Abirami Illam,M.C.Nagar, Nandiambakkam, Chennai - 120. My compliant is against the Electricity Board staff at Melur Branch, Minjur. My SC No. is[protected], Meter No. 10076635. Nobody came to note the meter readings for the month of Mar & April, but I took the reading on 20/04/12 and went to their office to pay the bill. The lady at the counter speaking over her...

Dear TNEB Chennai,

Obviously being a govt. organisation there has been no reaction to the complaint made here, however I don't mind re-iterating that the same timings are being maintained for power cut in the sembium area - between 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm every day.

Thanks...

Sir/Madam,

Our 3-face meter not working properly for past 3 weeks. Some times its running very slow and sometimes meter running very fast. So I gave written complaint to the AE of Manali EB section on 27 April 2012. I not taking action for my complaint. Our Service#: [protected]. Consumer Name: Santha Jaganathan...

Dear sir,
I have paid my old electricity bill online but now system shows CC arrear and CC arrear fees. Kindly look into the matter and remove the CC arrear which i paid already on 15th Dec 2011.

For further details please contact on my email id : [protected]@yahoo.com

Regards
Ismoil...

Hi
There is so much power problem will available in our state . Why our government have not take a action improve the use of solar system in every village And save use of power
Is my suggestion is the government will announce the low cost Solar power system For Agriculture
for Less Then Two Acre (for at least some minimum solar use )

There is no need of solar during the Rain period. The government will...

Hi,

Past 3 months I am living in Sithalapakkam, Chennai with my family. This is rental house only. EB meter is not running there, so some of EB employee was visited here while the previous tenant was here and they charged maximum average units 250 Units. Because they were using so many electronic items. But now we don't using that much items, we are using only 2 fans, 3 tube lights, 1 TV, 1 Mixi and 1 Indention stove only....

I am a resident of Sheila nagar, Madipakkam. For months, we have very bad power fluctuation and voltage problem.

I have checked with my electrician, he said it was 160 volts only. AC is not working at that voltage. Hence he advised to put a Double Boost stabilizer, which he said will work even upto 140 volts.

I did that. Even after that during nights, the Double Boost doesn't work after 8.00 (It seems...

I am writing about somangalam,Naduveerapattu, and puduchery village Chennai-69 EB area code 266-010 and other.We having frequent random power cuts as well as low voltage problems.it is showing 120v to 140v instead of 230v.Everyday after 4pm we cannot use wed grinder,water jet pump,fan and other home utilities we made a complaint many times they are not rectifying the problem.in those areas many people using bamboo stick to get (kokkee current)...

About 11 Resisdence, who are paying their bills in time are facing huge challenge to live here in Sachidanandam 2nd Street, Kosapet (Otteri Division), Chennai -12 as Power cuts and low voltage are frequent breath taker.

Most of the time power shuts down in the evening or in late mid night. And to add to the agony, EB complaint cell herein Otteri keeps the phone[protected]/[protected]) purposely busy so that they dont get...