Monthly Milk Card Tariff (Aavin)

:: Monthly Milk Card Tariff (Aavin)::

Gone are the days when we woke up by the voice of the milkman "Amma Paal" in Chennai. Also the system of token milk whereby we stand in a long "Q" to purchase the milk. I am not sure whether these systems prevails in Chennai, But I didn't see them these days. Thanks to the technological advancements & modernisation which has changed almost everything.

I am proud to tell that we (Tamil Nadu) are the 2nd largest dairy player in India after Gujarat. The major players in our state includes Aavin, Hatsun (Arokya), Heritage, Dodla Dairy, Milky Mist, Thirumala etc., Of which I am going to post few informations about Aavin. 

Aavin Paal (ஆவின் பால்) - Name Reason : 

Source: Aavinmilk.com

" ஆ(Aa)"  in Tamil means COW. 
"பால் (Paal)" in Tamil means MILK. 

AAVIN PAAL - Literally means, Cow's Milk.

Brief History about Aavin : 

The Dairy Development Department was established in Tamil Nadu in the year 1958 to oversee and regulate milk production and commercial distribution in the state. The Dairy Development Department took over control of the milk cooperatives. It was replaced by the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited in the year 1981 which sold milk and milk products under the trademark "Aavin".

Average Milk Procurement in District Cooperative Milk Producers Union : 

Year	Avg Milk Procurement Per Day
2001-2002	17.49 Lakh Litres
2002-2003	15.79 Lakh Litres
2003-2004	17.26 Lakh Litres
2004-2005	20.56 Lakh Litres
2005-2006	21.59 Lakh Litres
2006-2007	22.1 Lakh Litres
2007-2008	21.64 Lakh Litres
2008-2009	22.00 Lakh Litres
2009-2010	22.30 Lakh Litres
2010-2011	20.66 Lakh Litres
2011-2012	21.4 Lakh Litres
2012-2013	26.83 Lakh Litres

Milk Products from Aavin :

Aavin produces 4 varieties of Milk which are as follows : 

• Toned milk (3% Fat) (Blue)
• Doubled toned milk (1.5% Fat) (Magenta)
• Standardized Milk (4.5% Fat) (Green)
• Full Cream Milk (6% Fat) (Red)

Tariff of 500ml Aavin Milk packets : 

If Purchased in loose (Non Card Holders) : 

Type of Milk	Pack Color	MRP (Rs)	Total Expenditure for 30 Days Month	Total Expenditure for 31 Days Month
Toned milk (3% Fat)	Blue	13.50	405.00	418.50
Doubled toned milk (1.5% Fat)	Magenta	12.00	360.00	372.00
Standardized Milk (4.5% Fat)	Green	15.50	465.00	480.50
Full Cream Milk (6% Fat)	Red / Orange	17.50	525.00	542.50

Tariff for monthly Card Holders : 

Milk Card. Source: chennaimadras.blogspot.com

Type of Milk	Pack Color	MRP (Rs)	Total Expenditure for 30 Days Month	Total Expenditure for 31 Days Month
Toned milk (3% Fat)	Blue	12.00	360.00	372.00
Doubled toned milk (1.5% Fat)	Magenta	11.50	345.00	356.50
Standardized Milk (4.5% Fat)	Green	14.50	435.00	449.50
Full Cream Milk (6% Fat)	Red / Orange	16.50	495.00	511.50

Savings because of Monthly Card :

Type of Milk	Pack Color	Savings for 30 days Month	Savings for 31 days Month
Toned milk (3% Fat)	Blue	45.00	46.50
Doubled toned milk (1.5% Fat)	Magenta	15.00	15.50
Standardized Milk (4.5% Fat)	Green	30.00	31.00
Full Cream Milk (6% Fat)	Red / Orange	30.00	31.00

How to apply for Aavin Monthly Card : 

Milk Cards are sold through 16  zonal offices all over the city for the milk supply period-16th of current month to 15th of succeeding month. Milk cards for the period less than 30 days are also issued. 

zonal offices are working with out any holiday from 1st to 16th of every month except National and festival  holidays. 

Milk cards are also sold through designated milk depots during 1st to 13th of every month.

Zonal offices in Chennai :

Sl. No.	Zone	Office Address	Phone No.
1	ADYAR ZONE	No39-A, First Main Road,	23464589
		Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, Ch-20.	23464590
2	ANNA SALAI ZONE	No.151, Agarchand Mansion,	28460649
		Anna Salai, Chennai-2.
3	AYYANAVARAM ZONE	No.359, Konnur High Road,	26740345
		Ayyanavaram, Chennai-23.
4	ASHOK NAGAR	1st Floor, TNHB Shopping	23464550
		Complex, Ashok Nagar,CH-83
5	MANDAVELI & MYLAPORE ZONES	No.77, C.P.Ramaswamy Rd.,	23464557
		Commercial Complex Corporation
		Building, Alwarpet, Chennai-18.
6	NORTH MADRAS ZONE	No.117, Prakasam Salai,	23464544
		Broadway , Chennai-108.
7	PERAMBUR ZONE	No.88,89, Perambur High Rd.,	23464549
		Venkatraman Street, Chennai-11.
8	T.NAGAR ZONE	No.1, Saravana Mudali St.,	23464554
		T.Nagar,  Chennai-17
9	TRIPLICANE ZONE	Shop No.21, Lloyds Colony,	23464588
		Triplicane, Chennai-14
10	VEPERY ZONE	No.131, Kalathiappa Street,	23464545
		Choolai, Chennai-112	23464546
11	ANNA NAGAR ZONE	Plot No.X-39-A, II Avenue	23464551
		Anna Nagar Tower Parlour,Ch-40	23464552
12	WASHERMANPET ZONE	No.243, Tiruvottiyur High Road,	23464548
		Tondiarpet, Chennai 600 081.	23464547
13	TAMBARAM ZONE	49/9, Venkatesa Choudry St.,	22260261
		Tambaram (West), Chennai-45.
14	VELACHERY ZONE	27, Dhandeeswaram Main Road,	22435052
		Velachery, Chennai 600 042.
15	PALAVAKKAM ZONE	77/1C, N.No.3/400 East Coast	24483133
		Road, Palavakkam, Chennai-41.
16	PALLAVARAM ZONE/S.P.	6,Chavadi Street,	22643112
		Pallavaram, Chennai-43

Applying Online - Paal Card Becomes Smart Card : 

The existing Milk card subscribers & the new subscribers can apply for the smart card online. All the we need to do is to  submit the necessary informations in the Aavin Site. 

• Click here to go to the online milk card portal of Aavin. 
• Select Purchase New Milk Card
• Fill in the necessary details in the form which opens after clicking Purchase New Milk Card.
• The New subscribers needs to wait for some time  for approval. The consumer will be informed the approval details by e-mail.
• After getting approval for new cards, the consumer may purchase new Milk cards by making payment through internet using Master/Visa card.
• The consumer has to produce the following any one address proof and print out of the receipt for payment.
  a. Ration Card
  b. Driving Licence
  c. Bank Pass Book
  d. PAN card
  e. Voter ID
• Once you submit the necessary informations on the online portal, the smart card registration details will be sent to the our mail ID and the card will be despatched to the regional/local Aavin depot. 

Renewal of Aavin Monthly Milk Card : 

Off-Line:

The Milk cards should be renewed with the respective aavin zonal office between 1st & 14th of every month.

Online Renewal : 

• Apply for smart card as discussed above under "Applying Online - Paal Card Becomes Smart Card". 
• After receiving the smart card from the regional / local Aavin depot, again  go to to the online milk card portal of Aavin.
• Now select "Monthly Milkcard Renewal"
• Then click "Having Smart Card"
• Login using the Customer ID / smart card no and fill up the necessary details and make payment online using Master / Visa Card.
• The consumer has to collect the new milk cards at the respective Depot/ Milk Delivery points on 15th of the month by surrendering the old milk cards and print out of the receipt for payment. The old milk card should not be renewed in the Zonal Office after renewed through online for that month.
• Service Charges for online facility : 
  Up to 1 ltr   Rs. 10.00 | Up to 2 ltrs Rs. 20.00 | Up to 3 ltrs Rs. 30.00

For more details and clarifications, you can contact Aavin @ 044 - 2346 4575 / 76. Toll Free No: 1800 425 3300 . Email: aavincomplaints@gmail.com

Source:  http://www.aavinmilk.com/, http://www.agritech.tnau.ac.in/ 

Conclusion : 

I hope this post was useful to everyone . If we can save some 45 bucks a month because of this simple monthly card, there is nothing wrong in going ahead with it. Most of us were unaware about these milk card and many of us  don't know the procedure as to how to apply for this monthly milk card. Now everything has made online and made it easier for us to apply. Thanks for your time in reading this post, share it and let others aware !

With Cheers,

Deepak Raghuraman.

TNEB (Electricity Board) Additional Deposit (ACCD) - What is ACCD & How to calculate ?

TNEB (Electricity Board) Additional Deposit (ACCD) - What is ACCD & How to calculate ?

Thank you all for the response and feedback for my earlier post about Electricity Usage Tariffs in TN. This post is in response to the query raised by Arun Kumar in my previous post. He has rightly pointed out that many people were puzzled about this Additional Deposit being charged by the TNEB and it is true that most of us didn't know how it is being calculated.  I just gone through few articles, TNEB sites and got to know few things about Additional Deposit, otherwise called as ACCD (Additional Current Consumption Deposit) which I am sharing below. All the points below were just my interpretation of the facts found in the sites referred at the bottom and I cannot assure the correctness of the same. 

What is ACCD & When it is assessed ? 

• ACCD - Additional Current Consumption Deposit is like a caution deposit (Refundable) which is found in excess of what was already paid as "Consumption Deposit". The difference amount will be collected in the following manner.
• The adequacy of security deposit may be reviewed and refixed once in a year in case of HT (High Tension) consumers and 
• Once in every two years in case of LT (Low Tension) consumers.
• It shall be made in the month of April / May 
• Most of the home and domestic consumption were of LT and hence our household ACCD will be assessed once in two years.

Calculation of ACCD (Additional Deposit) Amount : 

The amount of security deposit shall be based on the periodicity of billing for the respective category.

A. For Monthly Billing Consumers : 

The Security Deposit is equivalent to two times of the monthly average of the electricity charges for the preceding twelve months.

Ie. ACCD = 2 x ( Total of Last 12 months Consumption Charges / 12 )

Amount to be collected now as ACCD = ACCD (As Calculated above) Less Current consumption deposit paid already.

Eg : If you paid Rs. 12,000 (Totally) for the past 12 months, then your average monthly EB Charges will come to Rs.1,000 per month. And the ACCD as calculated above will be Rs.2,000 ( 2 x Rs.1,000 ). If you have already paid Rs. 1,000 as consumption charge, the amount which you need to pay now is Rs.2,000 - Rs.1,000 = Rs.1,000.

B. For Bi-Monthly Billing Consumers (Most of the households and domestic usage comes under this category) :

The Security Deposit is equivalent to three times of the monthly average of the electricity charges for the preceding twelve months.

Ie. ACCD = 3 x ( Total of Last 12 months Consumption Charges / 12 )

Amount to be collected now as ACCD = ACCD (As Calculated above) Less Current consumption deposit paid already.

Eg : If you paid Rs. 12,000 (Totally) for the past 12 months, then your average monthly EB Charges will come to Rs.1,000 per month. And the ACCD as calculated above will be Rs.3,000 ( 3 x Rs.1,000 ). If you have already paid Rs. 1,000 as consumption charge, the amount which you need to pay now is Rs.3,000 - Rs.1,000 = Rs.2,000.

C. For Half-Yearly Billing Consumers : 

The security deposit is 

equivalent to seven times of the average charges per month.

Ie. ACCD = 7 x ( Total of Last 12 months Consumption Charges / 12 )

Amount to be collected now as ACCD = ACCD (As Calculated above) Less Current consumption deposit paid already.

Eg : If you paid Rs. 12,000 (Totally) for the past 12 months, then your average monthly EB Charges will come to Rs.1,000 per month. And the ACCD as calculated above will be Rs.7,000 ( 3 x Rs.1,000 ). If you have already paid Rs. 1,000 as consumption charge, the amount which you need to pay now is Rs.7,000 - Rs.1,000 = Rs.6,000.

Rules regarding the Additional Deposit : 

• If available deposit is less than the revised Security deposit, the balance shall be collected as Additional Security deposit either through a separate notice or by a distinct entry in the consumer meter card for LT services. 
• Thirty days notice period shall be allowed for the payment. 
• If the payment is not received within the above period of thirty days, the service is liable for disconnection.

What if the available deposit (Already Paid) is in excess of what is being calculated as above ? 

• If the amount of Security deposit held is found to be in excess of the requirement, the excess shall be adjusted against two future demands for the electricity supplied. 
• Where, after such adjustment in future two demands, there is balance to be refunded, the refund shall be made by cheque before the due date for payment of the third demand.

Conclusion : 

Hope this post helps you to find out what is ACCD and how it is being calculated. As pointed above, these are just my own interpretations of the facts which I found through the sites reffered at the bottom. I request you all to cross-check the same with amount charged for you and let me know if it works fine . If any of you finds that the data which I provided is incorrect, feel free to mail me : innovativedeepak87@gmail.com. 

References : www.tneo.gov.in, www.tnebnet.org

Click here to know about the TNEB Tariffs.

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Here comes the latest update from Namma Area Blog :) After making random posts about Namma Chennai, Now I have decided to write about all the areas of Chennai one after other. It will be on some sequence whereby I try to cover all the areas of Chennai. 

The post will talk about history about those places, Name reason, Some important landmarks, Heritage buildings in those areas etc etc., Those who want to write about your area, you are welcome to make a guest post here. 

Please mail your interest & suggestions to innovativedeepak87@gmail.com.

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Electricity Usage Tariffs in Tamil Nadu (TNEB) 2013

:: Electricity Usage Tariffs in Tamil Nadu (TNEB) 2013 ::

Based on the responses for my earlier posts on MTC Bus Tariffs & Call Taxi Tariffs, here I am sharing the tariffs of TNEB - Power consumption charges. Many a times we have come across the jokes like the bill shock is more dangerous than the any other shocks and all. But there is a base for calculating these rates and tariffs. The rates and tariffs differs for different categories of which I am posting the tariffs of major categories. All the tariffs were for the Bi-Monthly consumption.

1. Domestic House Hold Consumption  Tariffs (Includes Handloom,Nutrition Centres etc) :

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Domestic House Hold Consumption (Includes Handloom,Nutrition Centres etc)
Upto 100 Units		0-100 units		1.00		20.00
Upto 200 Units		0-200 units		1.50		20.00
Upto 500 Units		0-200 units		2.00		30.00
		201-500 units		3.00		30.00
Above 500 Units		0-200 units		3.00		40.00
		201-500 units		4.00		40.00
		Above 501 units		5.75		40.00

2. Commercial & others (including construction for residential buildings, cinema theatres, cinema studios etc) :

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Commercial & others (including construction for residential buildings, cinema theatres, cinema studios etc)
Upto 100 Units		0-100 units		4.30		120/KW
More than 100 units		From first units		7.00		120/KW

3. Railway Colonies, Defence colonies etc. :

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Railway Colonies, Defence colonies etc.		Fixed Rate per unit		4.00		100.00

4. Public lighting, water supply, Sewer., Village panchayats/Town Panchayat, Municipality/ Corporations : 

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Public lighting, water supply, Sewer., Village panchayats/Town Panchayat, Municipality/ Corporations		Fixed Rate per unit		5.50		-

5. Govt and Aided Educational Institutions, Govt. Hospitals etc : 

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Govt and Aided Educational Institutions, Govt. Hospitals etc		Fixed Rate per unit		5.00		100/KW

6. Private Educational Institutions & hostels :

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Private Educational Institutions & hostels		Fixed Rate per unit		6.50		100/KW

7. Places of Public worship, Mutts : 

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Places of Public worship, Mutts
Upto 120 Units		0-120 units		2.50		100/KW
Above 120 Units		Above 120 units		5.00		100/KW

8. Cottage, Tiny Industries, (Upto 10HP) : 

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Cottage, Tiny Industries, (Upto 10HP)
Upto 500 Units		Upto 500 units		3.50		30/KW
Above 500 Units		Above 500 units		4.00		30/KW

9.Power Looms (upto 10 HP) incl. Winding etc. : 

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Power Looms (upto 10 HP) incl. Winding etc.
Upto 500 Units		Upto 500 Units		0.00		100/KW
Above 500 Units		Above 500 Units		4.00		100/KW

10. Industries :

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Industries		Fixed Rate per unit		5.50		60/KW

11. Temporary activities such as construction of commercial complexes/residential building/complexes of more than 12 dewlling units, Lavish illuminations : 

Consumption		Slab		CC Charges Per Unit (Rs)		Fixed Charges for 2 months
Temporary activities such as construction of commercial complexes/residential building/complexes of more than 12 dewlling units, Lavish illuminations		Fixed Rate per unit		10.50		-

The rates and tariffs mentioned above were the revised one and came with effect from 01st April 2012 and still in force. If you find any mistakes or errors in the rates, please feel free to inform me . I will update it accordingly. 

References : http://www.chennaicircle.com/, http://centralgovernmentemployeesnews.in/, http://jaabaali.com/, tnebtariffcalculator, www.tnebnet.org