"electricity-bills"

TGSPDCL CMD Musharraf Faruqui issued a statement appealing to consumers not to believe fraudulent calls or messages on electricity bill payment

In many colonies in the Secunderabad area, meter readers are just generating power bills and leaving the place without even informing the consumers.

Posing as power staff, they contact guillible people and ask them to clear pending bills by downloading an App and siphon off funds.

Hyderabad: Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDCL) Chairman and Managing Director G Raghuma Reddy on Tuesday appealed to consumers not to share the details of bank accounts and credit or debit cards. He also advised them not to follow suspicious links for payment of electricity bills. The consumers may register their complaints with […]

Hyderabad: An electricity department lineman was allegedly abused and assaulted when he went to collect pending electricity bills from an apartment at Bahadurpally in Dundigal. Y.Laxma Reddy, working at the electricity sub-station in Dommara Pochampally went to collect the pending electricity bills about Rs.23,000 from flats in an apartment. According to the police, when Laxma […]

Sheohar: A person hailing from Bihar’s Sheohar district has come up with a unique protest against the fuel price hike across the country by riding a horse while going to work. The man, who works with the state electricity department, collected electricity bills from people while riding a horse from one village to another, instead […]

The callers dial up gullible consumers and threaten to cut off power supply overnight if they fail to pay the bill immediately

They topped the day off with bowls of Japanese ramen noodles, also purchased with a scan of an Alipay code.

Impressed by his inventions, Azeem said the district administration will consider using the automatic street light device in all the villages.