The UT Electricity department’s move to charge late fee and surcharges for two months- December, 2019 to February, 2020, for which payments were delayed due to Covid-19 lockdown, was met with opposition by the UT residents.
The electricity bills for four months were delivered at the doorsteps of Chandigarh residents in June.
Residents maintained that the department clubbed the consumed units of all the four months instead of dividing the consumed units as per slabs, increasing the rates of the consumed units.
The approved rate in Chandigarh is Rs 2.75 for the slab of 0-150 units, and Rs 4.80 for 151-400 units. For the slab of above 400 units, the rate is Rs 5.20 per unit.
