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UHBVN directed to pay ₹5,000 relief to consumer

An official spokesperson said the case pertained to incorrect readings of the electricity meter. Following inquiry, it was found that the meter reader had not taken accurate reading for a long time.

The Haryana Right to Service Commission has directed the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) in Sonepat to pay <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>5,000 compensation to Radhey Sham for causing unnecessary trouble to the consumer and making him visit the SDO office multiple times (Shutterstock/ Representational image)

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Updated on Jul 09, 2024 06:16 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Narrow escape for 4 in Chandigarh’s Sector 21 as power meter catches fire

Thick black smoke had reached the first floor by the time a fire tender rushed to the spot; firemen with the help of a ladder rescued all four occupants and doused the fire

The fire brigade received a call at 10.17 am about smoke emanating from an electricity meter. (Getty Images/Hemera)

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Published on Mar 13, 2024 05:57 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

MSEDCL initiates cross-verification of meter readings in Pune circle after two cheating incidents

During the investigation, several officials inspected the electricity connection of Sambhaji Sakharam Jadhav, a domestic consumer in Nande. It became apparent that the meter was not in its designated place

Pune circle comprises Pune city, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Pune rural. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

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Published on Sep 27, 2023 10:19 PM IST

BySiddharth Gadkari

IPS officer helps elderly woman in UP get electricity connection

IPS Anukriti Sharma tweeted a video capturing the heartwarming moment when electricity lights up an elderly woman’s house for the first time in Uttar Pradesh.

IPS Anukriti Sharma and her team at Noorjahan's house in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr. (Twitter/@ipsanukriti14)

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Published on Jun 27, 2023 03:13 PM IST

ByArfa Javaid

Homes in Delhi to get ‘smart’ power meters

BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) and BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) are a joint venture between Reliance Infrastructure and the Delhi government. The two companies manage power distribution in south, west, east and central Delhi areas.

Electricity bills in the Capital will see an increase of 2 percentage points from October 1, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) announced on Thursday. (HT PHOTO.)

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Published on Jun 21, 2022 04:44 AM IST

BySweta Goswami

UP: BEWARE! Fraud group targeting electricity consumers via fake messages

The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited has directed the power supply companies to send a message to the consumers informing them as to who should they trust for official communication related to their power connection.

The gang sends messages to electricity consumers on their mobile phones through different numbers between 9:30 and 10:30 pm.(HT File Photo/Representative image)

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Published on May 09, 2022 08:51 PM IST

ByHT News Desk | Written by Aryan Prakash

Smart pre-paid electric meter in every house in Bihar by 2025: Nitish Kumar

While launching the scheme here, Kumar said once the project is completed, it would be a big achievement for the state in power sector.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar (HT Photo)

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Published on Dec 16, 2021 03:55 PM IST

PTI | , Patna

Delhi: Now, electric vehicle users can install home charging station at ₹2.5k

With a customer potentially having to pay ₹2,500 for an electric vehicle charging station, Delhi is providing the cheapest of such facilities in the entire country.

A Hero Electric Vehicles Pvt. electric scooter charging station in New Delhi, India. (Representational Image / Bloomberg)

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Published on Nov 14, 2021 01:45 PM IST

Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Sohini Goswami, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Control inflating food prices: Himachal CPI (M)

CPI (M) has also demanded that the government provide ₹7,500 per month and 10 kg ration per person free of charge to all those outside the purview of income tax

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Updated on Nov 01, 2020 11:40 PM IST

Hindustan Times/Shimla | ByHT Correspondent, Shimla

Varanasi weavers go on indefinite strike over new power tariff

There are about 5 lakh weavers associated with weaving of Banarasi sarees, stoles and other clothes in the city and they claim the government move was burning a hole in their pocket.

The strike call was given by Uttar Pradesh Bunkar Mahasabha and Varanasi-based organisation Biradarana Tanzim. (HT File photo: Raj K Raj)

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Updated on Sep 03, 2020 08:35 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Varanasi | ByHT Correspondent

Consumers fined ₹40 lakh, 20 power theft cases detected in PSPCL raids in Ludhiana

About 1,227 connections checked by PSPCL officials and 73 faulty machines replaced on the spot and sent for testing. Many found tampered with

About 1,227 connections were checked in Ludhiana on Tuesday and consumers fined <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>40 lakh for power theft and misuse of electricity meters.

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Updated on Aug 11, 2020 10:57 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | ByHT Correspondent, Ludhiana

Chandrashekar Rao’s Attic Space has an answer to all your office space needs

This Bengaluru-based co-working startup uses clients’ ideas, prime locations and affordable costs to ensure that an ideal office space is created, which meets all requirements.

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Updated on Feb 19, 2020 06:05 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

PSPCL junior engineer caught red-handed while accepting bribe in Ludhiana

Accused was posted at power utility’s Beeja office; had sought ₹50,000 from a man for installing his electricity meter

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Updated on Oct 29, 2019 10:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | ByHT Correspondent, Ludhiana

Tenants in Delhi too can now claim power subsidy

To get such meters installed, the tenants will have to call the helpline number of concerned power distribution companies in their area.

Tenants in Delhi can now avail the government’s power bill waivers and subsidies by applying for prepaid electricity meters. (Representative Image)(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Updated on Sep 25, 2019 11:36 PM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Elderly gets ₹79L power bill, DHBVN corrects ‘mistake’

Hans, however, said he was worried as the payment due date was just a week away and he was yet to receive a copy of the corrected bill.

SS Hans, who received the inflated bill, said he was shocked to see the bill amount and that it took his wife two months of standing in queues and doggedly meeting DHBVN officials to get the bill revised.(HT FILE)

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Updated on Sep 18, 2019 06:33 AM IST

Gurugram | ByDhananjay Jha

Two directors of builder group booked for selling same flat to two persons

A case was registered at the Phase 3 police station against two directors of the group, Anil Mithas and Madhu Mithas, under sections 406 and 420 of the IPC.

Police said the suspects are on the run and that is why they have not been questioned yet.(HT image)

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Updated on Aug 26, 2019 11:00 PM IST

Noida | ByHT Correspondent

More shops sealed by SDMC at Janakpuri

Political leaders from the SDMC said the action was taken on the Delhi Chief Secretary’s instructions as per the National Green Tribunal (NGT) orders.

The sealing drive against garment shops, stitching units and godowns at Chanakya Place market in Janakpuri, continued on Saturday.(Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Aug 03, 2019 09:29 PM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Gang posing as electricity dept officials busted, two held

The gang had a network of informers who would tip them off about faults in the electricity meters of consumers or help identify vulnerable people, said Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (south).

The arrest of the two men led to the recovery of fake BSES identity cards, broken seals of 42 electricity meters and tools used for breaking or uprooting metres.(SOURCE: DELHI POLICE.)

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Updated on Jul 24, 2019 12:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Residents of Naushachapada in Aarey Colony get electricity connection for the first time

Jaanu Umbarsadhe, a village elder from Naushachapada, goes around telling his neighbours that he is the only person of his generation to have witnessed the arrival of electricity to the hamlet at Aarey Milk Colony. Yesterday for the first time, residents of the Warli hamlet in Aarey Milk Colony, had lunch together under lights and fans after 37 electricity meters were inaugurated by officials from the state government, electricity provider and the donor who paid for the connection.

Residents at the inauguration of the first electricity meters at Naushacha Pada, Aarey Colony.(HT Photo)

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Published on Jul 01, 2019 12:40 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByYesha Kotak, Mumbai

Police book owner of PG after 26-year-old employee electrocuted

The deceased, identified as Surendra Kumar, of Almora in Uttarakhand, came to the city eight months ago and had been working here since then.

A 26-year-old man, who worked as a helper at a paying guest (PG) accommodation in Sector 55, was allegedly electrocuted while he was mopping the floor in the balcony of the PG basement on Monday afternoon, the police said.

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Published on Jun 20, 2019 12:48 AM IST

Gurugram | ByHT Correspondent

UP: 1/3 prepaid power consumers have not recharged meter for months

Around one-third of electricity consumers using prepaid electricity meters in Uttar Pradesh have not bothered to recharge their connections for months.

The shocking revelation comes at a time when the Centre has asked all states government to replace all postpaid power connections with prepaid ones by 2021.(Representative image)

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Updated on Jun 07, 2019 03:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByBrajendra K Parashar, Lucknow

Their Saubhagya? No power connection but they’re getting bills

The village, which has no electricity since Independence, was surveyed for Narendra Modi government’s much touted Saubhagya Yojna last year.

An electricity pole without cables in the village.(HT Photo)

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Published on May 06, 2019 12:15 AM IST

Prayagraj | ByFarhan Ahmed Siddiqui

Residents protest against builder after caps on power recharge

The protest took place at the Aditya Urban Casa society premises and saw residents complaining about various civic issues there. The society has nearly 700 flats with an occupancy of 600 families.

Residents claimed that this was the builder’s way of pressurising the AOA into taking over the handover of the society.(AFP Photo/Prakash Singh)

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Updated on Apr 22, 2019 08:17 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Noida | ByHT Correspondent

Soon, high-rise residents to get individual power connections

To address the long-pending demand of flat owners in high-rises, necessary amendments in the Electricity Supply Code have been made to provide individual connections in all multi-storey complexes in Noida.

Official figures say there are over one lakh people living in nearly 200 high-rises in Gautam Budh Nagar district.(Sunil Ghosh /ht photo)

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Published on Aug 29, 2018 02:47 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Noida | ByPawan K Pandita, Noida

₹16-cr scam in PSPCL’s purchase of meters comes to light; probes on

“It looks as a scam as the whole tender approved by the directors was amended, causing loss to PSPCL”

PSPCL directors approved purchase of 131 meters at <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>800 each for installing on transformers and 2.54 lakh meters at <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>468 each for consumers premises, with 35% premium over these rates, said the complaint.(HT file/Representative image)

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Updated on May 03, 2018 09:24 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Patiala | ByVishal Rambani, Patiala

Mumbai man gets 2-year RI each in three cases of power theft

Additional Sessions Judge imposed a fine of Rs15.3 lakh, stipulating that Rs10.18 lakh of the amount be paid to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board.

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Updated on Mar 29, 2018 10:06 AM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India, Thane

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An official spokesperson said the case pertained to incorrect readings of the electricity meter. Following inquiry, it was found that the meter reader had not taken accurate reading for a long time.

Thick black smoke had reached the first floor by the time a fire tender rushed to the spot; firemen with the help of a ladder rescued all four occupants and doused the fire

During the investigation, several officials inspected the electricity connection of Sambhaji Sakharam Jadhav, a domestic consumer in Nande. It became apparent that the meter was not in its designated place

IPS Anukriti Sharma tweeted a video capturing the heartwarming moment when electricity lights up an elderly woman’s house for the first time in Uttar Pradesh.

BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) and BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) are a joint venture between Reliance Infrastructure and the Delhi government. The two companies manage power distribution in south, west, east and central Delhi areas.

The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited has directed the power supply companies to send a message to the consumers informing them as to who should they trust for official communication related to their power connection.

While launching the scheme here, Kumar said once the project is completed, it would be a big achievement for the state in power sector.

With a customer potentially having to pay ₹2,500 for an electric vehicle charging station, Delhi is providing the cheapest of such facilities in the entire country.

CPI (M) has also demanded that the government provide ₹7,500 per month and 10 kg ration per person free of charge to all those outside the purview of income tax

There are about 5 lakh weavers associated with weaving of Banarasi sarees, stoles and other clothes in the city and they claim the government move was burning a hole in their pocket.

About 1,227 connections checked by PSPCL officials and 73 faulty machines replaced on the spot and sent for testing. Many found tampered with

This Bengaluru-based co-working startup uses clients’ ideas, prime locations and affordable costs to ensure that an ideal office space is created, which meets all requirements.

Accused was posted at power utility’s Beeja office; had sought ₹50,000 from a man for installing his electricity meter

To get such meters installed, the tenants will have to call the helpline number of concerned power distribution companies in their area.

Hans, however, said he was worried as the payment due date was just a week away and he was yet to receive a copy of the corrected bill.

A case was registered at the Phase 3 police station against two directors of the group, Anil Mithas and Madhu Mithas, under sections 406 and 420 of the IPC.

Political leaders from the SDMC said the action was taken on the Delhi Chief Secretary’s instructions as per the National Green Tribunal (NGT) orders.

The gang had a network of informers who would tip them off about faults in the electricity meters of consumers or help identify vulnerable people, said Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (south).

The deceased, identified as Surendra Kumar, of Almora in Uttarakhand, came to the city eight months ago and had been working here since then.

Around one-third of electricity consumers using prepaid electricity meters in Uttar Pradesh have not bothered to recharge their connections for months.

The village, which has no electricity since Independence, was surveyed for Narendra Modi government’s much touted Saubhagya Yojna last year.

The protest took place at the Aditya Urban Casa society premises and saw residents complaining about various civic issues there. The society has nearly 700 flats with an occupancy of 600 families.

To address the long-pending demand of flat owners in high-rises, necessary amendments in the Electricity Supply Code have been made to provide individual connections in all multi-storey complexes in Noida.

“It looks as a scam as the whole tender approved by the directors was amended, causing loss to PSPCL”

Additional Sessions Judge imposed a fine of Rs15.3 lakh, stipulating that Rs10.18 lakh of the amount be paid to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board.

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