Snag in billing and payment for power inconvenience 1.8m consumers in Bihar
Around 1.8 million power consumers in Bihar will have to pay the combined energy bills for July and August next month after a snag in one of the two billing servers on July 30 not only impeded generation of energy bills, but also disrupted online payments partially.
A team of software engineers from New Delhi are camping in Patna for the last three weeks to fix the bug, which has hindered operations of the two discoms – the north and the south Bihar power distribution companies limited (NBPDCL & SBPDCL).
The snag has affected around 700,000 power consumers under the NBPDCL and 1.1 million under the SBPDCL across 63 towns in 35 of the 38 districts of Bihar, excluding Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur.
