Phagwara: Residents of Pipa Rangi locality in Phagwara have expressed resentment over hefty electricity bills received by them on Wednesday evening. They even stopped a meter reader of PSPCL from taking readings and raised slogans. Some residents said earlier they would receive electricity bills of around Rs500, but now they were getting hefty power bills of around Rs40,000. They said for the last eight to nine months, they had been getting hefty power bills. Most of the consumers of the locality were unable to pay such high bills. Moreover, the meter readings taken by the department staff were wrong. The enraged residents stopped an employee who came to take readings and demanded that the bills be fixed. Later, SHO (City) Joginder Singh along with a police party reached the spot and interacted with them. On the occasion, the supervisor of the department, Kuldeep Kumar, assured the residents that they would resolve their issue by correcting the readings. OC
