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Following a 'hurried' transition to new billing software, thousands of electricity consumers in Punjab have received bills worth crores of...

4 March 2026 - Patiala, Punjab

Record date
4 Mar 2026
Location
Patiala, Punjab

What happened

Following a 'hurried' transition to new billing software, thousands of electricity consumers in Punjab have received bills worth crores of rupees. Officials have clarified that the software isn't broken, it's just 'optimistic' about the residents' secret lives as industrial tycoons. Discoms have advised consumers not to panic and to treat the trillions in arrears as a 'clerical suggestion.'

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