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A 'power' shock for electricity consumers in UP
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Jun, 2019
Power consumers in Uttar Pradesh
are in for a major post-poll shock with the UP Power Corporation
Limited (UPPCL) proposing a 25 per cent hike for domestic power
consumers.
Against the prevailing power tariff of Rs 4.90 per
unit for the first 150 units, the new tariff will be Rs 6.20 per unit in
the same slab. The power tariff for the commercial sector will also be
hiked by 10 to 15 per cent.
This 26 per cent hike in tariff for domestic sector has been strongly opposed by the Samajwadi Party (SP).
The
UPPCL has already submitted the proposed new power tariff structure for
2019-20 to the UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) for vetting
and final approval.
The UPERC will now conduct public hearing
and issue a public notice before taking a call on the new tariff order
for the current financial year.
SP President Akhilesh Yadav said that this hike would directly impact the middle and lower income groups.
"The
state government is targeting these classes who will have to bear the
burden of this hike in power prices. The BJP government has failed to
live up to the demand for power and now they are increasing the tariff,"
he said.
"The BJP government in the state had not increased even
one unit of production whereas in the Samajwadi regime, we had doubled
production from 9000 MW to 18,000 MW. The state demand for power is
almost 24,000 but the state government is unable to meet the same," the
former Chief minister added.
UP Power Consumers Council chairman
Avadhesh Kumar Verma has alleged that the yawning revenue-expenditure
gap and the projected loss by the state power utility was majorly owing
to gross inefficiency of the UPPCL management, apart from the
procurement of expensive power.
The state energy department has
sought to justify the proposed increase in power tariff for the current
year over steeper prices of fuel, including coal, and consequently
higher cost of power generation.
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