By The Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra has shelved its decide to absorb the facility bills of domestic customers for 3 months throughout the internment.
Citing mounting arrears, Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Tues proclaimed that the govt won’t be able to offer any relaxations in power bills for the internment months of Gregorian calendar month, could and Gregorian calendar month. customers can have to be compelled to pay the complete quantity as per the readings within the bills, he told mediapersons.
In the wake of complaints of excessive power bills being received by folks, as well as by outstanding industrialists and film celebrities, Raut’s department had in August planned involved the majority of “additional” burden for the April-June amount of the internment.
As per the proposal, all eligible households were prone to pay just for the units consumed within the corresponding months in 2019. For cases wherever the beaked units for Gregorian calendar month, could and Gregorian calendar month this year exceed the corresponding usage by a hundred units or less, the govt had planned involved the whole value of the excess consumption. It had additionally planned to soak up fifty per cent and twenty five per cent of the additional burden for cases wherever the excess beaked units vary between 101-300 units and 301-500 units, severally.
But with the proposal – meant to learn one.14 large integer households or ninety per cent of all residential customers in Maharashtra – expected to value the state pecuniary resource Rs one,071 crore, the finance department had raised many queries, stall its additional progress. The proposal in August was developed following a gathering between minister of finance Ajit Pawar and Raut.
Glossing over the delay to decide on the proposal, Raut on Tues damned mounting bill arrears and rising debt of the facility distribution company for shelving of the arrange.
“Mahaviran (state’s power discom) is additionally a client. It buys electricity from many power generation firms. Currently, Mahavitran is facing a deficit of Rs 69,000 crore, we have a tendency to cannot avail of additional debt at this stage,” he said.
An alternate decide to waive the bills of the complete 3 months for domestic customers with consumption below three hundred units additionally couldn’t progress additional.
Raut, a Congress minister, additionally damned the Centre for not serving to out. “We tried laborious to produce edges to the customers however sadly the Centre didn’t facilitate America,” he said.
On November thirteen, Raut had earlier in agreement in theory to a bonus of staff of state-run power firms following protests from unions.
