When I received the electricity bill for the month of January I was shocked! as the bill amount was triple the monthly average of earlier months. This is because of the gross negligence of the MSEB billing staff. They have not visited the society to record the meter reading. If you see the bill, they have used earlier time’s photo and have blackened the meter reading part of it. Bill is showing “6097” as the closing reading on 27/01/09. However the actual reading is only “6057” on 26/02/09. Means it’s very much higher even after one month of consumption. I had to run from pillar to post for almost 10 days to just make them visit the society and take actual reading again. Till date my bill is not yet adjusted.
We as honest tax payers, pay income tax, service tax, VAT, octrai, toll, etc. And at the end of the day this is the type of service we get from the government. We are already busy with our work in the hard hit recession period and we are harassed for none of our fault and for the inefficiency of government staffs. If we don’t pay the amount in time we are penalized. Same way for this kind of gross negligence these people should also be penalized. That will be the day when we can say we are truly democratic.
I’m not the only person facing this problem. Lot of other residents in our society also has faced the same issue. MSEB higher authorities should look into the matter and fix it up once for all.
3 comments:
yes i have received two inflated bills for Rs.9000 and 7000. Krishna
I agree with you. I also tried reaching MSEB many times but they just don't care about our problems. At least you are living in the flat and getting the bill. In my case, most of the time I am out for office work...still I'm getting the bill with the same amount. - Anshuman
Hello,
I too received the bill of this kind. The amount was not high but the amount was copied of the previous month. What should be done....?
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