Pay your EB Bills online - TNEB Online

Am not sure if you guys are aware of this or not. If not this could help you or your family or your friends.

Payment of EB Bills can be done online now:
The government has launched a site and it has provisions for making online payment. I personally feel it’s a good and useful step in the right direction. We no longer need to ride to the EB or wait in long queues or keep a note/reminder for the last date or pay with fine. If you still feel it’s better to pay it at the EB counter it is even useful again. Because it also provides the bill readings(meter readings and the total cost) for your electrical connection (i.e.) the EB card( the old and unreadable cards usually kept in the EB box at all homes) is electronically available now. So even if you miss out on a reading( as you forgot to place the card near the box or for some other reason) you will still be able to see your readings and the amount you need to pay through this means.

What you need to know?
1) Need to login into
http://www.tneb.in

2) In order to know the reading or make a payment you need to know the service number/consumer number. The service number is nothing but a number which is something of the format like this XXX-XXX-XXX (for example 121 005 005). This will be available in your previous bill(if you have) or the old EB card as SC No. If in Chennai you need to know the Chennai Circle in which you fall in. Again this can be found in the previous bill or your card or by just knowing which part(North/South/East/West) of Chennai your area falls under.
You need to go to the following link to know the reading or make the payment "Navigate from the home page to the readings page by Choosing "Billing Services" menu and then choosing "Bill status"in the drop down menu (or) use the following link
http://www.tnebnet.org/newlt/menu2.html and then choose your appropriate region(North/South/East/West)


3)In order to make a payment you need to create a new account as such you create a e-mail account and then provide the SC no also there. We can also add one another number(SC) in the same account(so that you can make payments for your friend/neighbor if you wish to :) ).

4)So to make payments the following is the procedure:
(i) Login into http://www.tnebnet.org/awp/TNEB/index.php
(ii) Create a account as specified above.
(iii) At the beginning of the month of the payment,log to your account then choose and pay the appropriate amount.
(iv) There are various options to make your payment.Currently they allow credit cards(which might attract a little service charge)payments.Axis bank,icici bank net banking accounts can be used. They deduct service charge when I paid through my icici net banking account(around Rs 11/- few days after the payment date)

Am pretty much pleased with this service by the TNEB as this will definitely save me from the hassles I face to make the payment and also lessen the load on my already overloaded memory to remember the bi-monthly EB payment date and amount. Am sure whoever makes the regular EB payment at their respective houses will also appreciate this as I do :)

All we need is an Internet Connection @ Home (and off course a little bit of computer knowledge :) ) and a creditcard.

Please note that this facility is now available only in few cities of TamilNadu - Chennai,Madurai,Tirunelvelli,Erode,Coimbatore,Vellore,Villupuram,Trichy( PS:- Am not sure about the cities other than Chennai as I haven't made any payments for connections in those places. This information about cities in which online facility is available was published in Hindu)