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...

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...

Unethical business practices by telecom service providers in life time validity plans subscribed by prepaid category of mobile subscribers- An article as titled above was brought out on 28/12/2018 in this blog indicating unethical business practices of the Telecom Service Providers on their prepaid and postpaid telecom connections. The link to the article is: https://skvirmani-jagograhak.blogspot.com/2018/12/unethical-business-practices-by-telecom.html The telecom service providers had launched a scheme “life time validity” plans for mobile subscribers wherein the mobile users were being offered free incoming calls for which no recharge for its validity was required against one time charge. It was ranging from various amounts varying from company to company, the most prominent being Rs. 999/-. These plans were announced by telecom companies more than a decade back. The subscribers were required to recharge with talk time value recharge vouchers if the subscribers wish t...

I have brought out an article titled "whether the Electricity DISCOMs in Delhi adapting to unethical business practices?" , the link of which is given below: http://skvirmani-jagograhak.blogspot.in/2016/07/whether-electricity-discoms-in-delhi.html While the issue has already been brought to the notice of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission and Ministry of Power of Govt. of Delhi, it is advised that all consumers of electricity in Delhi write a complaint by email to their respective DISCOM to flood their office with complaints. Even though the email ids are required to be stated in the back side of the electricity bills, for ready reference I am giving below the email IDs of the respective company where the complaint as per template given below can be mailed.                  DISCOM                                 ...