Electricity Dearer in Punjab !

Today it was believed that The Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) Chairman Jai Singh Gill will announce revised tariff of Electricity in press conference for Punjab State because earlier it was scheduled for announcement yesterday that is on 7th Septemeber, 2009 but because of death of former Chief Minister of Punjab Harcharan Singh Brar State Government declared holiday and it was postpone till today, So today new tariff announced and three categories of power consumers that is Domestic, Non residential and Industrial ,there existing and new tariffs detail are below mentioned ---

Sr.No:	Slabs	Existing Rates	MMC Rates Rs/KW	New rates	MMC New rates Rs/KW
Domestic Category
a	upto 100 Units	2.40 pa	32	2.80 pa	35
b	101 to 300	3.91 pa	32	4.28 pa	35
c	above 300	4.13 pa	32	4.52 pa	35
Non Residential Category
---	---	4.49 pa	115	4.91pa	126
Industrial Category
1	Small power	3.58pa	95	3.92pa	I04
2	Medium	3.95pa	126	4.33pa	138
3(i)	Large(General Industry)	3.95pa	113/KVA	4.33pa	124/KVA
3(ii)	Large(PIU)	3.95pa	298/KVA	4.33pa	326/KVA
3(iii)	Large(Arc Furnace)	3.95pa	298/KVA	4.33pa	326/KVA

and free units as subsidies will be continue to the following categories of consumer--

• SC Domestic consumers with connected load upto 1000 watts will be given 200 units of free power per month in view of Government subsidy.

• Non-SC BPL Domestic Consumers with connected load upto 1000 watts will be given 200 units free power per month in view of Government subsidy.

• Declared new tariff will be dearer to all the above categories are approximately 17 percentage.

The subsidy amount being given by state Government to PSEB in lieu of free power to agriculture sector and SC /ST families has been increased from Rs. 2600 Crores to Rs. 3100 Crores. In Punjab as per news there is huge gap between demand and supply and till date in state Punjab State Electricity Board is adjusting the supply gap by load shedding of five to six hours during day time when people are at works and shocking aspect of power cut is that when Bharatiya Janta Party was in opposition and Indian National Congress was ruling the state then BJP in the time of summer against power cut agitate but now as it is the alliance party and governing the state, it’s M.L.A.’s now not feeling the heat generate by power cuts not only in the summer season but also in the last winter season, it shows how much they are sincere towards the difficulties of common people? Now that with new tariff it will certainly increase their power cost budget without getting power so they have not only continue to spend money on alternative power sources like generators or inverters but also have to pay more on electricity units.
    Shocking part of this new tariff plan is that it will be effective from 1st April,2009 it mean that now consumers have to pay for pass five months also and it will be collected from them through coming months in equal installments as arrear.