KOLKATA: Faced with a barrage of complaints on over-billing following hefty bills that consumers have received in June, CESC has decided to revise the bill and collect only the amount for the electricity consumed in June while keeping in abeyance the balance.
The June 2020 bill had included the partial consumption of the past two months when meter could not be read due to the lockdown. This decision affects 26 lakhs domestic consumers. CESC had earlier announced a scheme to pay the June bill in three instalments following the outpouring of consumers’ anger on social media.
The Sunday evening decision by CESC chairman Sanjeev Goenka followed a missive from the power department to explain how the June bill was computed.
Sources said there were indications that given the discontentment brewing among citizens over the billing issue, there was a possibility of a probe being ordered into allegations of CESC overcharging consumers by calculating the bill at higher slab rates.
