Electricity Shocks the Poor Yet Again

24 Mar, 2016 17:17 IST

  • Government gets ready to serve people with high power bills
  • Charges rise for the second time in 2 years
  • Rs.2000 crore worth weight on the heads of the poor
  • This is the result of downsize of TDP Government’s subsidy
  • The state’s people in agony

 The TDP Government, already busy serving common people with rise in prices of essential commodities, RTC bus tickets and petrol and imposing taxes and taxes over taxes, is now getting ready to give them shock with electricity bill. Stage is being prepared to put heavy weight of Rs.2000 crore on the heads of people. Electricity Regulatory Commission has gotten ready to issue the pertinent orders in 2-3 days.  The new charges may be implemented from the 1st of April.

This is the second time since TDP came to power that the electricity charges rose. In 2015-16 TDP Government laid Rs.941 crore weight on the heads of common people. AP electricity distribution companies in their tariff proposals for financial year 2016-17 suggested a rise of Rs.738 crore and decided to attain Rs.1217 crore by indirect means. They proposed that there would be Rs.5148 crore of financial deficits in 2016-17. As the Government was expected to give Rs.4365 crore as subsidy, it was downsized to Rs.3000 crore. Due to this cut back, the electricity companies have decided to impose the burden of Rs.2148 crore on common man.

People are frustrated to see how the Government is buying huge quantities of power from private power companies and laying burden on them. On recognizing this, TDP Government has planned to impose the charges on people indirectly. As part of this, Group system is going to be brought to practice. Presently, telescoping system is under practice in the state to charge the domestic consumers depending on the number of units used. Now as the group system emerges, consumers are going to be charged basing on annual consumption.

Because of this, the people who consume 50 units will be burdened. A consumer who uses an average of 600 units per year will fall into the next level of tariff from the next year if he uses at least 1 extra unit. This group system is going to trouble almost 40 lakhs of common people.


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