A resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur named Shamim has been in a shock after the Power Corporation sent him an electricity bill of Rs 128 crore. Shamim lives with his wife Khairu Nisha and they only use a light and fan at home. They are wondering as to how they were sent an astronomical amount as a bill. And the worse is that the authorities have cut his connection since Shamim has not paid the due amount.

Shamim said that no one listens to their pleas, how will they pay that amount? When they went to complain about it, they were told that they won’t resume our electricity connection unless they pay the bill.

However, the authorities played down the incident and blamed it on a technical glitch.

Assistant Electrical Engineer Ram Sharan said – ‘This must be a technical fault. If they provide us the bill we will issue them an updated one after rectifying the technical fault in the system. This is no big deal. Technical faults do take place’.

Since, the bill has left Shamim shocked but he is not the first person to get such a huge amount as a utility bill. Just a few months back, Abdul Basit, another UP man got a bill of Rs 23 crore and that for his home electricity connection of 2 kilowatts. It hapenned despite the power meter at his home showing a reading of 178 units , which is normal for an average household meter reading.

This is not just a problem in UP, a man from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in 2017, got an electricity bill of Rs 3800 crore. BR Guha who has three fans, three tube-lights and watches TV at times was handed the non-payment of the bill by the Jharkhand Electricity Board, following which, electricity was disconnected from his home.