Everyone in Gurugram has exactly one electricity distributor. When the supply fails there is nothing to switch to, only a diesel generator and the bill that comes with it. The law already allows a second distributor to operate alongside the first. Add your name to ask for it.
Add your name to the residents of Gurugram asking for a choice of electricity distributor. Two fields, about 10 seconds.
Your name is recorded as a Gurugram resident asking for a choice of electricity distributor. Nothing else happens. You are not applying for a connection and you are not switching supplier.
The strongest thing you can do next is send this to your RWA group or your building's WhatsApp group. Your neighbours want better supply too. They just need to be asked.
Gurugram's malls, offices, factories and housing societies keep diesel generators running because the grid supply cannot be relied on. Residents pay twice: once on the electricity bill, and again on the society's generator charge.
Every hour the supply is out, a household is paying more than three times the grid rate for the same electricity. The more outages there are, the more of the bill is charged at the higher rate.
None of what follows is disputed. It has been reported by mainstream newspapers, repeatedly, across more than a decade. The position for consumers has not changed, because there has never been anywhere else to go.
Eight major establishments including malls, plus several housing societies, went without supply for more than two days and ran on generator sets. Residents blocked the road.
May 2026Times of IndiaRapid Metro services stopped during the evening rush and passengers stranded in darkened trains stepped onto the elevated tracks, walking to the nearest station. A fault at a 220kV substation in Sector 72 cut supply across eight substations on a day the city touched 42.7°C.
July 2026The TribuneRain flooded large parts of Old Gurugram and triggered long outages. Khazur Colony in Farrukhnagar reportedly went 18 to 20 hours without electricity, while several neighbourhoods were out for seven to eight hours.
May 2025The TribuneDLF Phase 1 recorded roughly eight hours without supply following a brief rain spell, with cuts reported across nearly a hundred localities.
May 2022Hindustan TimesSector 46 residents protested after a fortnight of long outages during a heatwave. Their RWA president said the distribution lines and transformers were laid roughly twenty years ago.
June 2019The TribuneResidents took to the streets and to social media as the city touched 47°C. Societies rented generators and charged residents as much as ₹25 a unit; rural areas, unable to afford generators, went without.
Section 14 of the Electricity Act, 2003 expressly permits more than one distribution company to supply the same area over its own network.
Choice only means something if it applies to households and small shops, not only to large industrial consumers. Anyone dissatisfied should be free to switch, and anyone satisfied should be free to stay.
How many hours a locality was without supply, and how long restoration took, should be public and comparable. Consumers cannot make a choice if they cannot measure how each provider performs.
Mumbai households can choose between distributors supplying the same area, and can switch without buying anything new. The Supreme Court confirmed in 2014 that no distribution company holds a privileged position as the sole electricity distributor of an area. Consumers have been switching ever since to seek better supply and service.
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