Grahakjago (S.K.Virmani)©

While Health Workers and Authorities in India were busy to cope with Corona Pandemic, the Electricity Discoms in Haryana seems to have been busy in deceiving the electricity consumers Blessings in Disguise  India like any other country in the world also faced pandemic due to Corona in most of the months of 2020-21. The Pandemic has not only affected industrial economy due to lockdown but citizens also got affected severely including due to their unemployment, salary cut, shopping industry coming to standstill.  While, on the one side, the stakeholders like Government Departments, Ministries, Regulatory Authorities, Health Departments/ Hospitals etc., were  struggling hard to bring out the citizens from  such worst situations, on the other side certain businesses were busy in treating such a pandemic as a blessings in disguise for their deceptive trade practices. The glaring example in the present studies is as to "whether the Electricity Discoms in Haryana were also...

While this post is being published on this blog from a complaint received from one of the consumers in Faridabad, Haryana with an objective of creating awareness about the Rights and Respons ibilities of the Electricity Consumers in Haryana, the same is applicable in principle for consumers across the country with a difference in the timelines, etc. This is so because the distribution of the electricity to the consumers is governed under the Electricity Act, 2003. An article titled " How Electricity Consumers in Haryana being deceived and violated through Electricity Billing and Metering issues by DHBVN - a PSU Discom of Haryana State - Is it the Deficiency or Deceptive Trade Practices" was also published in this blog on 10th September 2020, a copy of which was also mailed to DHBVN . The link of the post is  http://skvirmani-jagograhak.blogspot.com/2020/09/electricity-billing-and-metering-by.html An electricity consumer had reported a complaint about his burnt meter to th...

There has been a misconception among electricity consumers in India about the monthly/ bi-monthly   billing systems. Such misconc eption is not limited to any specific city or state but across the  co untry. Most of the consumers meeting the author during his awareness campaign have expressed  their concern saying the bi-monthly billing is doubly charged as the rates are on a slab basis and theses slabs get over in the first month itself and in the 2nd month of the bill, the rates become flat rate system or i n the next higher slabs because the slab rates get over in the first month of the bill. Unfortunately in the sector of Electricity, the higher the consumption, the higher is the rate per unit.  While the author has been giving a practical demonstration from the copies of the bill brought by the attendees in the workshop proving that the billing system won't make any financial deception to the consumers whether charged on monthly billing or bi-monthly billing sys...