Procedure for Transfer of Electricity Connection of MSEDCL Mumbai

In this post, I am going to write down detailed procedure for changing name in Electricity
Connection Bill of MSEDCL in Mumbai. This is based upon my personal experience,
which I faced when I purchased a flat in resale in Mumbai during 2012.
You can download required forms from website of MSEDCL
In my case all officials I dealt with were honest and I was never required to pay any chaipaani (bribe) etc. But no doubt the process was lengthy and there were 4-5 steps
involved in it. And in my locality I had to visit 3 different offices (In vicinity of each other
though not in same complex) for accomplishing the same. In your case all three might be
in same complex depending upon the area you live in.
You will require following list of documents in case of purchase of flat :
1.

Application Form for Change of Name

2.

Form A1 (Only first page is required to be filled)

3.

One passport size photo pasted on Form A1

4.

Form-U (It contains NOC which is to be signed by Old Consumer)

5.

Undertaking from a New Consumer on Stamp Paper of INR 100

(Format given asAnnexure-A in Form-U). It is for the purpose of
indemnifying MSEDCL.

6.

Identity Proof (PAN/UID/Driving License/Passport etc) with your correct

Name.

7.

Notary Attested copy of Sale Deed/Agreement of Sale of Flat

8.

Copy of latest Electricity Bill along with copy of Payment Receipt of

the same.

9.

Copy of Society Share Certificate if issued/ Letter from Society on its

Letterhead acknowledging that you are the current owner as per their
records and MSEDCL can transfer connection in your name. (Documents
in Step 9 are not mandatory, as I got it transferred without submitting
these)

You can start with the process even if it is taking time for you to gather all above
documents. Following steps depicts the whole process:
1.

First step is to get the meter testing done by Electricity Supply office of
your area. To achieve this you have to follow these steps:

A.

Visit Electricity Supply office with copy of your any electricity bill,
there a person of Engineer rank will issue you Challan
Form for Meter Testing, on which he will fill your Consumer No,
Meter No, Address etc. and will sign it. On this form, he may write
either your name or old consumers name, which does not matter.
Ensure your consumer No. is correctly filled on this. He will also
mention a fee of INR 100 in it as Meter Testing Charges.

B.

Now take one photocopy of the Challan Form signed by Engineer

earlier and go to Bill payment counter (which may be in separate
office). Show them Challan and its photocopy and pay INR 100
there. He will give you receipt of paid amount and will also fill the
receipt No. on Challan Form and may retain the photocopy of
Challan with him.

C.

Now take one photocopy of both receipt and Challan Form. Go

back to Electricity Supply office and submit Original Challan Form
along with copy of receipt and copy of your electricity bill too
technician there. Their technician will visit your society in next 3-4
days for meter testing (seems they have some machine with which
they check whether meter is running fine or not) and will submit
testing report to you at home. If you usually dont stay home try to
convey him that you dont stay at home in office hours and will
collect testing report from his office personally.

D.

In next 2-3 days technician may visit you and give you report or
else you check with him personally and collect the testing report.
Sometimes these technician may handover you testing report on
the same day even without visiting your society, depends upon
your luck. On this testing Report you have to get signature of
Engineer again who issued you earlier Challan.

2.

Now with this testing report, Challan, copy of receipt of 100/- and along
with all the nine documents listed above in the post you have to visit
their Customer Service Office. There supervisor will check all your
documents and if they are in order, he will retain all the documents and
will issue you another Challan for transfer charges of INR 25.

3.

Now take photocopy of this challan form and again visit the bill
payment counter for depositing INR 25 for transfer fee (Similar to step
1.B above). He will retain the copy of challan and will give you receipt of
25/- and will also mention receipt No. on Challan. Now take the copy of
this challan and receipt for your own records and submit the originals

back to the Customer Service Office where they will attach these with
earlier submitted documents.
4.

Now process from your side is done and MSEDCL employees would
change name in their records in next 8-10 days. Though there is
acknowledgement format given at the end of Form-U, they didnt give
me any acknowledgement of Documents submitted. After 15 days my
electricity bill got issued and I got relieved to see my name on it and
thus electricity connection got transferred to my name.

Other Points to be Noted:

On Form-U, you have to take signature of old consumer on No objection

on transfer of connection and deposit amount in your name. If it is not
possible for you to take his signature as he might not be reachable by
you, even then also I guess there is no issue in transferring connection
to your name, as you submit undertaking on stamp paper for
indemnifying MSEDCL against any claim.

Someone also told me that if you carry societys letter and old
consumers NOC then you dont need to submit undertaking on stamp
paper. I am not sure about this , it is better to submit this as well as this
is not difficult to make.

I had to pay very nominal charges only 125/- for which I got proper
receipts but the process was very cumbersome. Be patient while
following his lengthy process because in the end it would be done.

In Maharashtra there is trend of adding Fathers name or Husband

name as your middle name. If you dont want that then keep the
Fathers name column empty in Form A-1.