{"id":360523,"date":"2020-07-01T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=360523"},"modified":"2020-07-01T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:21:12","slug":"consumers-should-be-able-to-self-check-power-bills-merc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/consumers-should-be-able-to-self-check-power-bills-merc\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers should be able to self-check power bills: MERC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: MERC issued diktats to power firms that wherever a bill is more than double that of the average for March-May, consumers should be given the option of paying it in three EMIs.<br \/>\nThis followed allegations of inflated bills from consumers, including celebrities. Renuka Shahane tweeted, \u201cDear @Adani_Elec_Mum I got a bill of Rs5510\/= on the 9th of May while in June I got a bill of Rs 29,700 combining May &amp; June where yo\u2019&#8217;ve charged me Rs 18080 for the month of May. How did Rs.5510\/= become Rs.18080\/=?\u201d<br \/>\nDear @Adani_Elec_Mum I got a bill of Rs5510\/= on the 9th of May while in June I got a bill of Rs 29,700 combining\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/I0quknPjdG<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Renuka Shahane (@renukash) 1593352875000<br \/>\nA dedicated help desk or grievance officer should be set up or appointed at sub-division or division levels by the power utilities to ensure that grievances are responded to within a day of receipt, MERC said. It said consumers should be provided an online software utility to self-check bills in terms of units consumed as per meterreading, applicable rate, tariff slab benefits and a comparison with the bill for the corresponding period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: MERC issued diktats to power firms that wherever a bill is more than double that of the average for March-May, consumers should be given the option of paying it in three EMIs. This followed allegations of inflated bills from consumers, including celebrities. Renuka Shahane tweeted, \u201cDear @Adani_Elec_Mum I got a bill of Rs5510\/= on the 9th of May while in June I got a bill of Rs 29,700 combining May &amp; June where yo\u2019&#8217;ve charged me Rs 18080 for the month of May. How did Rs.5510\/= become Rs.18080\/=?\u201d Dear @Adani_Elec_Mum I got a bill of Rs5510\/= on the 9th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}