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The Chennai collectorate and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb) are locked in a dispute over power bill arrears of Rs 6 lakh that have accrued apparently due to undercharging.

The transmission company registered in June this year is expected to become operational from December 15. tneb now awaits the registration of its generation and distribution wings and the holding company.

The Madras high court has asked tneb to pay Rs5 lakh to the family of an agricultural labourer who was electrocuted after coming in contact with a snapped high-tension wire.

The directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption wing on Thursday have trapped an employee of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb) for taking a the bribe from a consumer.

The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb) has sought a three-month extension from the central government to complete the unbundling process. The board had been given a dozen extensions in the last six years.

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president S Thirunavukkarasar on Monday urged the state government to hold talks with tneb workers (Tamil Nadu Electricity Board) and address their grievances at the earliest.

The tneb proposal, if accepted by the Japanese agency, will see a good cash flow.

The power crisis in the state is taking a toll on field staff of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb). There are increasing instances of tneb officials being attacked by consumers.

As many as 800 contract workers of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb), who had launched an indefinite strike 12 days ago, have decided to stage a massive protest in front the tneb headquarters in Chennai on Friday.

tneb engineers and field staff have demand extra wages for risking their lives and working dur-ing lockdown, whereas ministerial, audit and ac-counts staff have demand that they be exempted from work during lockdown. The frontline employees of the power utility have accused the government of ignoring them while announcing ex-tra pay for the overstressed government workforce.

Soon after banners and posters with pictures of AIADMK union leaders thanking tneb chairman M Saikumar appeared outside the board headquarters, they have since been removed.

A group of about 20 persons barged into the tneb office in Nungambakkam, broke telephones and assaulted the operator Suryakumar on Friday night.

After dozens of extensions in the past three years, the half century old Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb) will formally be split into three departments on November 1.

City residents are being fleeced by employees of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb) in the name of replacing old meters with digital ones.

A discussion regarding wages for tneb staff which was to be held on Monday was postponed as the labour department asked the tneb management and unions to hold conciliation talks.

The poor financial health of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Department (tneb) has put the lives of small-scale manufacturers who supply electrical equipment to the board in dire straits. Some claim the power utility has not paid them dues since six months.

Residents of Sholinganallur beat up tneb staff after failing to get a response to their repeated complaints of defunct streetlights.

The Tamil Nadu Government passed an order on Thursday to unbundle the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb) by splitting it into two entities...

Helpless in the face of growing number of power theft cases, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb) now intends to employ over 250 ex-servicemen to conduct surprise checks and nab the guilty.

The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb) has asked Anna University to conduct a pilot study of unmetered connections in farms and slums in an effort to reduce transmission and distribution losses.