CESC's high-voltage bill shock triggers outrage against Kolkata's Sanjiv Goenka power utility

Описание: At a time when people are reeling under an unprecedented financial and health crisis triggered by Covid-19 and resultant lockdown, the electricity bills of exorbitant amounts served by RP Sanjiv Goenka Group owned power utility, the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (#CESC), has led to an outrage among consumers that has now turned into protests across Kolkata and its adjoining districts.

A large number of CESC consumers from Kolkata metropolitan area and its adjacent parts of Howrah, Hooghly, North and South Parganas districts have complained of receiving inflated and erroneous electricity bills which has only aggravated their lockdown crisis and financial woes.

Hundreds of consumers were seen staging demonstrations with the copies of the 'exorbitant' energy bills in front of several CESC offices and bill collection centres in Kolkata as well as in other districts.

Electricity in the capital city of West Bengal and its adjoining urban areas of Howrah is provided by Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC), a flagship company of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, which is engaged in the generation and distribution of electricity across approximately 570 sq km area.