Saturday, February 25, 2012

Public hearing on power tariff hike a formality: Cong


Raipur, February 25, 2012

The public hearing to be organised by Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission (CSERC) on February 28 on proposed 30 percent power tariff hike will merely be a formality as the government has made it mindset for it much earlier. The allegations against the government was levelled by PCC president Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey who strongly opposed the power tariff hike terming it injustice to the people of Chhattisgarh.
They said the people had become victim of the government’s mismanagement and their pocket would be dented further with the hike in power tariff. “The power surplus state, instead of getting benefited by selling electricity, is incurring huge loss by purchasing electricity,” the duo ridiculed.
“The Congress opposes all the whimsical pretexts given by the government on proposed power tariff hike and demands from it to roll back its decision,” they said.
The Youth Congress (YC), on the other hand, said that its members would attend the public hearing of the CSERC and register their protest against the power tariff hike. “We will seek accounts of surplus power from the officials in the public hearing. If the government would take repressive action against us then we would launch offensive against it through protest movements,” said YC’s Raipur Lok Sabha president Vinod Tiwari. 

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