Raipur,
April 30, 2013
Congress has lashed out at the government over proposed
power tariff hike terming it anti-people.
“Already consumers are paying high power
tariff. The proposed hike would be additional financial burned on them. The
people of water and coal-rich Chhattisgarh have right to get electricity at low
rate but they are not getting it due to government’s mismanagement and
corruption. Congress will strongly protest even single paise hike in power
tariff,” said Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla on Tuesday.
“Once again, Chhattisgarh state
electricity regulatory commission (CSERC) has proposed power tariff hike to
compensate losses of power companies by denting consumers’ pockets. It has
invited claims and objections till May 20,” he said.
“It is third time in one year the
government is going to increase power tariff. Nine months back, it had hiked
power tariff by 60-100%. The farmers using irrigation pumps had to pay three
times of the then existing tariff rate. Then the government increased 10-20
paise for all categories of customers on pretext of variable cost adjustment
(VCA). Meanwhile, it recovered Rs 250 crore by imposing double tax on the
consumers,” he said.
“Now, the government is again planning to
break the backbone of the common people, especially farmers by hiking power
tariff. The government has actually failed to check grafts and inordinate
expenditures of the power companies ever since they came into existence. Hence,
to compensate loses, it is putting additional financial burden on consumers,”
he said.
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