‘ ₹210,42,08,405’: Himachal Pradesh businessman will get whopping electrical energy invoice | Newest Information India

NDTV reported that Lalit Dhiman, a businessman from the Beherwin Jattan village, obtained a invoice amounting to ₹210,42,08,405 crore for December 2024, whereas he paid solely ₹2,500 for the earlier month.

Dhiman went to the electrical energy board to complain and was advised by the officers {that a} “technical glitch” was behind the excessive electrical energy invoice, which was rectified and introduced right down to ₹4,047, the report famous.

A similar incident occurred in Gujarat’s Valsad in November final yr. Muslim Ansari, a tailor, reportedly acquired a invoice asking for cost of ₹86.41 lakh.

Ansari, whose store within the Chor Gali of Valsad will get its energy from the state-owned Dakshin Gujarat Vij Firm Restricted, which has greater than 32 lakh shoppers unfold throughout seven districts in south Gujarat, introduced the large quantity to the officers’ consideration.

Upon inspection, the authorities had discovered that two digits – 1 and 0 – had been “mistakenly” added to the metre studying and this led to the massive invoice quantity, which was then corrected to ₹1,540.

“There was a mistake. The one that took the meter studying added the digits 1and 0 to the meter studying. We have now now given a revised quantity,” Hitesh Patel, an worker of the ability distribution firm, mentioned on the time.

In line with Ansari, the electrical energy invoice of his store was nearly at all times lower than ₹2,000.