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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