Tuesday, July 12, 2011

How to pay electricity bill online

Several times I have searched myself for the options to pay utility bills online. Especially Electricity/Power Bill. Electricity Bill is something everyone has to pay as it is one of the basic needs now, without which we cannot have our day to day life.

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Required Information
Inorder to pay the electricity bill online, you need the following

1. Register and create a profile with username and password (keep these details safely you need this every time you pay your bill)
2. Service Number
3. Circle/Billing Unit/Division (for e.g. For Chennai city, there are multiple circles - Chennai South, Chennai North etc)
4. Credit Card/Net Banking Details while paying the bill (required each time in some cases)

Important: Please note that when you provide Service number and circle information some of the details like  registered person name and address should be pre-populated to make sure whether you got the right service number and site correctly. Also remember to take the screenshot of the bill receipt at the end of the payment so that you can have a proof of your online payment.

Here are some of the sites which allows users to pay your electricity bill online.

Chennai and TamilNadu 

Hyderabad and AndhraPradesh:

Karnataka

Bangalore: Recenty BESCOM updated its online portal covering more division/sub-divisions


If the above link not covering your division/sub-division you can continue to use the below links.
http://www.bescom.org/
www.bangaloreone.gov.in/ (for bangalore only)



Himachal Pradesh (Shimla only) : http://www.hpseb.com/mybill/

South Haryana (Bhiwani, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Narnaul, Sirsa) 

North Haryana (Ambala, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat, Rothay, Jhajjar, Panchkula and Jind) : http://124.124.217.158/epay/




Note: This links provides the procedure to enable the ECS through banks.

Madhya pradesh:



Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala: Can be payed through Akshya e-centers.counters


Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce

How to pay multiple utility bills?
Following are some of the websites which you can connect and pay multiple utility bills through single username and password details but may charge some additional service charges for the paying online and this may be limited to some major cities only.


Hyderabad


Online Bank Bill Payments
Last but not the least. Most of the banks allows you to pay your bills through Online banking facility (like Bill Payers etc). For this you need to explicitly subscribe to Billers(using the Essential details listed above)

Benefits:
There are few benefits if you pay the electricity/utility bill online. 
  • In some states and cities, they offer about 1% discount in the total bill amount. (e.g. BSNL payment gives 1% discount in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh).
  • Banks also provide reward points for the payments done through the credit card/debit card/Electronic Clearance Service(ECS) which you can claim as gift vouchers or cash back over the period of time.
  • Of all, it gives a convenience of paying bills from any place(with internet) and at any time.
  • Standard Chartered, ICICI banks are providing a rewards and cash backs for using there Internet Banking, Credit Cards

Disclaimer: The above listed websites are collected from various sources and consolidated here in this blog. Neither the owner of this blog/blog will take responsibility for the any financial loss due to mislead online transaction payments. 

3 comments:

Surendra Singh Murdia said...

Your blog does not state that the Jaipur discom Charges 1% of the billed amount plus tax for online payment through Debit cards, whereas other service providers like BSNL gives 1% discount. This policy of the Jaipur Discom discourages on line payment

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tneb online payment billing procedure is excellent in the point of view.

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