A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here seeking a direction to Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) to give up the practice of bimonthly billing cycle and introduce monthly billing facility for domestic as well as commercial power consumers.
V. Vignesh Raguram (21), a third year student of Government Law College here, had filed the petition through his counsel RM. Arun Swaminathan. He claimed that consumers had to pay more money due to bimonthly billing system in vogue since the rate for every unit of electricity consumed was charged depending upon the total consumption.
Pointing out that consumers had to pay Rs. 3.50 for every unit if their consumption was below 200 units, he said that the consumption between 200 and 500 units was charged at Rs. 4.60 per unit. Similarly, electricity consumed above 500 units was charged at Rs. 6.60 per unit.
He claimed that a consumer paying around Rs. 1,400 in the bimonthly cycle would have to pay only Rs. 525 a month if monthly billing system was introduced.
