Thursday, May 16, 2013

Cong for Issuane of white paper on CSPDCL's income, expenses

Raipur, May 16, 2013

Congress has asked the government to issue white paper on income and expenditures of Chhattisgarh state power distribution company limited (CSPDCL). “The people want to know how CSPDCL is running at loss when Chhattisgarh is a power surplus state,” said Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla on Thursday.
“There are abundant coal and water in state, however, the people are getting electricity at higher rate,” he said.

“Not long ago when the government had hiked power tariff inordinately and then it raised power tariff by Rs 15-20 paise per unit on name of variable cost adjustment (VCA) recently. Now it wants to increase the electricity rates again. This is injustice to power consumers,” he added.

He said despite protest the energy secretary and CSPDCL’s managing director were defending the government on proposed power tariff hike. 

He asked chief minister Raman Singh, who is also holding energy portfolio, to clarify why Chhattisgarh state electricity regulatory commission (CSERC) organised public hearing on Thursday when the government did not intend to increase electricity rates. 

“The CSERC conducts public hearing when energy department and the power company send it proposal to hike power tariff. If no proposal was sent to the commission then why it invited claims and objections through public hearing,” he asked.

He said that power company was running at loss due to its exploitation by some of the influential persons in the government. He said another reason for CSPDCL’s loss was uncontrolled expenditures and grafts prevailed in it.



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