With the number of unpaid electricity bills mounting, Adani Electricity Mumbai Limited (AEML) has announced that it will disconnect the power supply of 700 households in Chembur’s Siddharth Colony.
These residents, as per AEML, have not paid their dues for over two years. While AEML initiated a mass disconnection exercise in August 2019, the company didn’t go through with the plan after receiving assurances from the residents. Some even approached then Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to intervene in the matter.
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AEML adds that although around 80 per cent of the customers started paying their dues after this incident, around 700 of them still haven’t, resulting in dues of ₹2.5 crores.
“We have decided to cut off power supply of those who have failed to pay their electricity bills since June 2019. AEML has given multiple notices to these consumers. The continued default by them is resulting in undue tariff burden on our other paying consumers. Therefore, we are constrained to disconnect the power supply of these defaulting consumers,” a spokesperson for AEML said.
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