TNEB — India’s Premiere Department of Vices
I have been thinking about this for the past few weeks and in the background compiling information from various front, which I have presented in this section. Currently a Government of Tamil Nadu undertaking, TNEB emphasizes in all fronts than one to be a premiere department to reflect that it has all vices without lacking of anything ranging from more its noble regression objectives, a few of them are listed below:
- Its esteemed employees abetting illegal powerthefts
- Lack of customerservice in focussing on reports from customers
- Undue public inconvenience due to reckless powercuts.
Hopefully, if Government of Tamil Nadu in its current regime, which seems to be so focussed on public welfare measures provides some kind vision into this eyesore too to provide some remedy. A few of the incidents that substantiate thier lacuna are:
- I have been getting so many emails asking whether there was any Makara Jyothi video recorded and uploaded since the yearly once religious and spirtual miracle at Sabarimala, which happened this year on January 14 and courtesy live relay by Podhigai could not be viewed by many because of reckless blackouts and powercuts in many parts of Chennai. One reader had put a subject of the mail as “Makara Jyothi burnt by TNEB“.
- Our area coming under Sembakkam Panchayat has many complaints of faulty meters. Meters would get replaced but they would run hardly for one week and then it would take fifteen more days for the gentlemen of TNEB to come and rectify the same. By the time for the monthly billing either the approximate amount or previous month bill would be applicable. This means a lot of inconvience due to public besides lot of revenue loss for the Government too. All these inspite of Tambaram Municipality and Sembakkam Panchayat being informed and even local weeklies reflecting these issues time and again.
- The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board website has the motto “Powering Tamil Nadu’s Progress”. I think with the attitude of staff, they have to amend this as “Leading Tamil Nadu’s regress”.
- Reckless low voltage problems leading to repair of domestic appliances when political parties’ meetings are powered by high power high mast lamps.
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Views and Reviews 
August 12, 2007 at 3:57 am
will these eb bastards never correct themselves? always low voltage problems and all shit.
August 12, 2007 at 4:04 am
@Jaishankar,
Thanks for dropping by and sharing your views. TNEB is known for that. They get ‘undertable’ bribes and they always divert powersupplies to political meetings and flesh trade businesses.
You may have seen headlines hitting papers regarding ‘illegal tapping of powerlines’.
Nevertheless, TNEB has also launched a ‘Flying Squad’ to check out these crimes and ‘contain’ them. You may like to check out this URL http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Consumer_Voice_India/message/2497
TNEB Flying Squad Number: +919444018955
January 16, 2008 at 7:36 am
Yes it’s absolutely true about Sembakkam TNEB, most of the meters in that area was not working. Even i was affected because of that issue, So they were charged me to about 40/- per month but finally in the year end they asked me to pay the fine upto 3000/- though it’s their fault. Othewise TNEB officials were threatned me saying that they will remove power supply.
June 6, 2008 at 12:57 am
Unless until TNEB is privatised (Like what happened to BSNL) and their bloody staff are shown the survival mode, nothing is going to improve. Electricity should be sold like any other commodity, TN Govt’s monoploy should come to end.
But the irony is, ploiticians has got the hidden agenda, as free power is vote bank for them. God save India!!! Jai Hind