Electricity Price Hike in Punjab

    On 22nd April,2010, Chairman of Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission(PSERC) Mr. Jai Singh Gill announced revised tariffs plan for electricity for the year 2010-11.This is tragedy with the people of state that throughout year, they yet to receive non stop electricity, from almost more then decade now, but constantly, on an average after six months receive present from Government in the tune of price hike either through Punjab State electricity regulatory Commission (PSERC),or from Punjab Government through Budget or silently increase or add on cess, and confusing side of price hike is that price hike effective from past months, government or concerned department announced that it was effective from particular date but last time government declared they had roll back price hike, but in the bills it was present as an arrear and then department only responded that until and unless we will not get notification, customers have to pay the bills as per mentioned. Anyhow, this time overall price hike is 7.5 percent, revise tariffs of domestic, non residential and industrial categories are as follow –

Sr.No:	Slabs	Existing Rates	MMC Rates Rs/KW	New rates	MMC New rates Rs/KW
Domestic Category
a	upto 100 Units	2.82 pa	35	3.11 pa	Loads up to 100 KW Rs.38/KW, loads exceeding 100 KW Rs.34/KVA
b	101 to 300	4.28 pa	35	4.52 pa	Loads up to 100 KW Rs.38/KW, loads exceeding 100 KW Rs.34/KVA
c	above 300	4.52 pa	35	4.78 pa	Loads up to 100 KW Rs.38/KW, loads exceeding 100 KW Rs.34/KVA
Non Residential Category
---	---	4.91 pa	126	5.19pa	Loads up to 100 KW Rs.136/KW, loads exceeding 100 KW Rs.122/KVA
Industrial Category
1	Small power	3.92pa	104	4.14pa	I12KW
2	Medium	4.33pa	138	4.58pa	148KW
3(i)	Large(General Industry)	4.33pa	124/KVA	4.58pa	133/KVA
3(ii)	Large(PIU)	4.33pa	326/KVA	4.58pa	351/KVA
3(iii)	Large(Arc Furnace)	4.33pa	326/KVA	4.58pa	351/KVA

 
   This is first time, tariff rates announced since Punjab Government unbundled Punjab State Electricity Board(PSEB) on 15th April.2010 and two corporations by name Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. (Powercom) to manage generation and distribution and another Punjab State Transmission Corporation Ltd. (Transco) to manage transmission functions, comes into existence, and effect of corporation is seen in the 2010-11, new electricity tariffs plan on to the categories of farmers and backward class of society, as farmers were getting free power from past some years now have to pay bills and backward classes which were getting 200 free units will get only 100 free units, result of this government will get 603 Crores rupees and 333 Crores rupees from both the categories respectively.

Food Security & Standard Act

    One of the biggest demon, in India, which comes out of the bag through media and horrifying every citizen of the country is adulteration, persons involved in anti humanity trades, are doing adulteration and even producing synthetic food products which are simply a poison to consume, unfortunately these money minded people have left no eatable items untouched like milk, pulses’, vegetables, oil, ghee, drinking water, spices, medicines and tea are few names, but fact here is that they make all the eatable items, hazardous and horrifying to use across India, all these commodities are essential part of India kitchen and one cannot imagine Indian cuisine, without these mentioned food commodities. Shocking part of this unfair trade’s prosperity is that electronics media was exposing it on daily basis but government machinery was totally fail to control and stop them, which resultant for them, not only to earn huge money but also successful in passing to society, slow poison, as continue intake of these items not only make body victim of deadly diseases’ but also untimely end of lives.
    Last year during festival season, electronics media unearth synthetic sweets items selling in market like cheese, oil, milk, khoya, colours which goes into to make sweets, and as during festival season sweets demand increases five to ten times, but because of awareness created by media, among people, as per news, last year sale of sweets drops 30 to 40 percent across country.
   Yesterday, in the upper house of Parliament ( Rajya Sabha ) while answering to the question, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabhi Azad had said that Government is going to implement, Food Security & Standard Act, which was pass in the year 2006 by Parliament, it will comes into effect in coming three to four months. The Act contains life imprisonment and along with it provision of fine to One million rupees to the manufacturers. He said that adulteration in the food items are equivalents to cancer, but he added to check/control/stop adulteration law is ready. Once this act comes into force then it will be responsibility of the, enforcement agencies, making law as tool to erase these inhuman traders from the country, actively raids the premises of tainted traders, plus take help from public of whereabouts of such traders, as once these raids started in the country and some persons arrested under Food Security and Standard Act, then it will become lesson for others to shun the unfair trade or ready to face consequences.
   Hopefully in coming days, as per words of Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabhi Azad soon, Food and Security Standard Act will be implemented, then for citizen of this country it will be sigh of great relief to use eatable stuff without any fear in mind of adulteration or synthetic product, as whatever we eat, it leave its impact on body and mind.