An elderly resident in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh has received an electricity bill of over ₹128 crore. The electricity department has removed the connection from his house and asked the man to pay the exorbitant bill to restore electricity to his home.
The resident of Chamri village, Shamim said that he approached the electric department for correction, multiple times, but they are not ready to listen and are asking him to pay down the entire amount. The bill generated is ₹128,45,95,444 for a home connection of 2 kilowatts.
Shamim while talking to ANI told:
“No one listens to our pleas, how will we submit that amount? When we went to complain about it, we were told that they won’t resume our electricity connection unless we pay the bill.”
Hapur: A resident of Chamri has received an electricity bill of Rs 1,28,45,95,444. He says “No one listens to our pleas, how will we submit that amount? When we went to complain about it,we were told that they won’t resume our electricity connection unless we pay the bill.”(20.7) pic.twitter.com/2kOQT8ho36
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 20, 2019
Shamim said that an average monthly bill of only about ₹ 700 or ₹800. He even accused the electricity department of handing him over the bill of the entire city.
Ram Sharan, Assistant Electrical Engineer: This must be a technical fault. If they provide us the bill we will issue them an updated one after rectifying the technical fault in the system. This is no big deal. Technical faults do take place. (20.07.2019) pic.twitter.com/4TUswbvVDu
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 20, 2019
After the news spread out, the electricity department has ignored the entire issue and called it a technical fault. And said this isn’t a big issue and it is a system fault. Engineer Ram Sharan assured that the department will rectify the bill once it is sent back to them.
Chachaji ko ek jila ka bill de diya gya hai pura. Ye gaan me andhe log dimag kahan fenk aate apna.
— Ranaji (@ranaji__) July 20, 2019
This kind of highlighting common people’s problems is good, will make the babus at these ops take notice and not make people run around. That Babu should be sacked for troubling this old man
— Vish Sathappan (@VishSathappan) July 21, 2019
Punish officer who are response poor old people trouble…
— Vk_Velswamy (@ivinovel) July 21, 2019
There is no logic. Really this EB would’ve not generated this much electricity power in a whole city also. What a worst service. EB people’s not even rectify their faults. Instead they cut their connection. Great INDIA……
— GANESH (@KANGANESH007) July 21, 2019
