Ranchi man in shock after receiving Rs 55.49 crore power bill

CHENNAI: 05/02/2014: An EB meter reading personnel taking reading by a device in one of the house. It is very quickly uploaded in their server to pay EB bills for consumers to avoid late fees. Photo: V. Ganesan.

A grocery store owner has got the shock of his life when he received an electricity bill of Rs 55.49 crore for his shop in Ranchi.

Krishna Prasad, who owns a shop at Kadru in Ranchi, went into a tizzy when he received the bill, his brother Jitendra said.

“We use to pay Rs 800 every month. We did not receive any bill for the last three months, and suddenly this bill reading Rs 55,49,88,036 reached us,” he said.

Electricity Department engineer Raj Kumar, however, said “The person who went to read the meter had made a mistake and we have since corrected the bill, which now stands at Rs 10,500. The bills are now being served by an outsourcing company.”