Congress has warned that power crisis in the state may
worsen in summer due to mismanagement of the government. “It is not even summer
but the rural pockets are witnessing frequent power cuts everyday. The power
companies are running short of adequate electricity at present and the gap
between demand and supply will certainly increase further in summer. The
government has not made any concrete plan to cope with this situation and
eventually, the consumers would have to suffer,” said PCC’s chief spokesperson
Shailesh Nitin Trivedi on Tuesday.
“The ruling BJP is projecting the state as power hub
of the country, but the people know the stark reality. Presently, the state
consumes 2282 MW electricity while in summer the demand will rise to 3500-4000
MW. The power companies are running short of 500 MW electricity at present
while the deficiency will go up to 1500 MW in summer,” informed Trivedi.
“The government had earlier claimed to start power
production in its Madva and Korba West plants from December 2011, but both the
units are still under-construction,” he said.
“The power surplus state is compelled to buy
electricity from other states owing to corruption prevailed in the power
companies. Now, the government wants to burden the consumers with high power
tariff, a ploy to compensate the inordinate expenditure done by the power
companies,” he charged.
“Surprisingly, since inception, the spending of
production and distribution companies rose to 15% and 83% respectively while
that of transmission company surged to 222%, an apparent indicator of
corruption prevailed in the system,” he said.
“The proposed 30% power tariff hike would deeply dent
pockets of common people, especially farmers,” he added.
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