Ludhiana, June 24 -- Thousands of PSPCL consumers in Ludhiana have started receiving provisional electricity bills after regular meter-reading operations were disrupted due to the ongoing strike by outsourced employees, leaving many consumers concerned over how their bills have been calculated.

The provisional or N-Code bills have been generated using consumers' previous consumption patterns available with PSPCL, as actual meter readings could not be recorded and processed during the May-June billing cycle. Officials said the bills are not final and any difference between the estimated and actual consumption will be adjusted in subsequent billing cycles once regular readings resume.

The disruption has affected consumers across Punjab, w...