{"id":591301,"date":"2023-07-15T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=591301"},"modified":"2023-07-15T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T07:49:27","slug":"power-meter-or-time-bomb-inflated-electricity-bills-leave-chennai-residents-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-meter-or-time-bomb-inflated-electricity-bills-leave-chennai-residents-in-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Power meter or time bomb? Inflated electricity bills leave Chennai residents in tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflated bills and erratic \u2018meter reading\u2019 by Tangedco have been sending shock waves among domestic electricity consumers across the city. While a Madipakkam resident was slapped a bimonthly power bill of \u20b97,210, as against his usual amount of \u20b9300, a Gowrivakkam man was made to pay \u20b927,000. <\/p>\n<p>Officials blame these ridiculously excessive billing on staff shortage and say the soon-to-be-installed smart meters will solve the problems related to meter reading and billing. But till the last meter turns \u2019smart\u2019 these largescale discrepancies will continue to shock consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflated bills and erratic \u2018meter reading\u2019 by Tangedco have been sending shock waves among domestic electricity consumers across the city. While a Madipakkam resident was slapped a bimonthly power bill of \u20b97,210, as against his usual amount of \u20b9300, a Gowrivakkam man was made to pay \u20b927,000. Officials blame these ridiculously excessive billing on staff shortage and say the soon-to-be-installed smart meters will solve the problems related to meter reading and billing. But till the last meter turns \u2019smart\u2019 these largescale discrepancies will continue to shock consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-591301","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\/591301","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}