Gruha Jyothi beneficiaries receive high electricity bills instead of zero billing

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Some Gruha Jyothi scheme beneficiaries in Bengaluru have received electricity bills of thousands of rupees instead of the expected zero bills.
Homes in the Makan Compound area near Shivajinagar received bills ranging from ₹1,000 to ₹5,000 over the past one or two months.
The residents are poor and middle-class families who had been getting zero bills for the past two to three years under the scheme.
BESCOM staff attribute the issue to a technical problem caused by meter readers being engaged in SIR process and Gruha Jyothi re-verification work.
BESCOM officials have been informed, but local residents say the problem has not been fully resolved, and similar complaints have come from other parts of Karnataka.

Whether BESCOM corrects the inflated bills and restores zero billing for affected households
Whether the technical issues linked to SIR and re-verification work are resolved
Whether complaints of missing zero bills spread further across the state

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