Chhattisgarh: Electricity bills spark political row, Cong alleges BJP’s policies strain consumers
The Congress staged protests outside the electricity board office in Raipur, where Baghel criticized the state's policies.
The Congress staged protests outside the electricity board office in Raipur, where Baghel criticized the state's policies.
The meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in presence of NDMC Chairman Amit Yadav, Vice-Chairperson Satish Upadhyay and others approved the acceptance of electricity bill in installments in the area of the civic body.
The Network Operations Centre (NOC) -- which can locate a power disruption within seconds in its entire jurisdiction before it can lead to a large power outage -- has come up at Powai.
Disclosing this on Friday, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said these consumers from five zones across the state have as many as 15.85 lakh beneficiaries with a total liability of Rs 1505 Crore, out of which the outstanding arrears worth Rs 77.37 Crore has been waived off so far.
Channi told the media after the Cabinet meeting that it decided to waive pending electricity bills of all defaulters having connections up to 2 KW.
As people across the town and its outskirts, especially many in the Matigara block, are getting astronomical electricity bills, Ajoy Sarkar, divisional manager, Siliguri division, who admitted the anomalies in the bills of June, said that it had happened because they have been trying to clear the backlog from the previous months
CESC recently faced a barrage of complaints from the customers on the previous June bill that contained unbilled charges of April and May. It had put the unbilled charges in abeyance and will recover just the bill for the month of June.
She received a power bill worth Rs 49,595 against power consumption by two electric fans and five bulbs and tubelights.
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Rahul Gandhi had on Tuesday said that his party 'will not let Prime Minister Narendra Modi sleep till he waives loans of farmers'.
