The Incompetent DHBVN

Thats f**king great.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Gurgaon/Power-thefts-poor-upkeep-feed-outages/articleshow/34800551.cms
The full article is on TOI newspaper.
They will be installed on all homesindustries which have power supply btw 10-50kw and will use gprs tech to remotely send data to their centre at hisar.
a quote "If there is a shortage of supply in an area we can reduce and balance it on the other thereby regulating supply during peak demand.
They will install from year end. My only hope is the privacy bill being passed by that time.
The govt needs warrant to search my hope. Here the power utility is invading my privacy by checking data in real time and switching appliances if it thinks that i am using more power. It can also have time based tariffs and not unit based tariff so in peak hours i will be charged more.
 
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Water bill payment disappeared from bbps few years ago. Hasn't come back yet. They have two billing system in Gurgaon it seems. They ask for K No. Our bills don't have that number.
 
Paytm also uses BBPS for bill payment. Can dhbvn identify it separately to block payments from it? Dunno how it works.
 
So that, if they make an error, they will wipe your Prepaid account and your electricity supply will be cut.
 
Not directly about DHBVN, so I apologise in advance for putting this here.

Our analog meter got changed recently with the new digital kind. In just a week or so, the "tc" count had shot up to 200s. I knew "tc" stood for "tamper count" - based on a handy table included in an amazon listing for a similar meter. On some observation, I saw that the meter was intermittently showing the "Earth" symbol whenever the "tc" count was jumping. It turned out that there was a neutral-to-ground short in a breaker box. These "smart" meters measure current on both live and neutral; and if there is any difference - in my case, I was told that some of the current was returning via ground instead of neutral - they count it as tampering.

I was afraid what the repercussions of this non-zero "tamper count" would be. So for a while, I was looking at tc counts of any meter I come across and everything I looked at had "tc" in hundreds or thousands. For example, breakers at a friend's house had tripped recently and the issue was a live-to-neutral short due to stripped wire or something. They also had another unrelated incident in which some appliance was giving slight shocks. Their meter was showing something like 6000 "tc". Another meter on a street light, which is switched on by someone shorting two wire sections with a wooden stick, was showing 9000s. After seeing all that, I stopped worrying and none of the later bills have any indication that the "tamper count" value is being tracked, at least for now, by our discom.

The most common way meters are tampered with, is apparently through magnets and these meters have a separate indicator for magnetic interference. I guess that kind of issue might be considered more serious by discoms.
 

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