Tewari slams hike in power tariff for 7th time in 6 years

Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari on Thursday lashed out at the Punjab government for increasing the power tariff for the seventh time in the last six years without generating even a single unit of extra electricity.

Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari on Thursday lashed out at the Punjab government for increasing the power tariff for the seventh time in the last six years without generating even a single unit of extra electricity.

He said the power tariff in Punjab during the past six years of the Akali rule had gone up by about 80 per cent. The District Congress Committee would take out a protest march from Circuit House which would go up to the mini- secretariat where they would give a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Rahul Tewari,he added.

The minister asked the government if it was morally right to increase the tariff in such a proportion when it was not able to provide even regular power supply to the people. Every summer people have to sweat it out in scorching heat without power, he said.

He added that the first thing this government did at the beginning of every financial year was to slap extra tariff on consumers even when they did not get sufficient power.

The minister asked the government what happened to their promises of Punjab being power-surplus. Leave aside being power-surplus,the state does not have power for the summers,neither for the domestic nor for the industrial sector, he said,referring to the practice of two-three-day power cuts every week to the industrial sector.

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