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Case against calculation of power consumption charges during lockdown

Madras High Court will hear a PIL which describes as “arbitrary and unjust” a methodology adopted by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation to collect power consumption charges for the period during which field workers could not record meter readings due to lockdown.

Equal division of units for two billing cycles would force customers to shell out more money, the litigant claimed. While the State government provided full subsidy for the first 100 units to all consumers, every unit consumed beyond that was charged at different rates for those falling under different slabs.