• Power tariff in Rajasthan lower than other states, CM Vasundhara Raje says

    The chief minister said tariff for domestic power in Rajasthan was lower than that in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, the chief minister said. The state government hiked power tariff by an average 9.6% last month.Raje said power tariff for agriculture in Rajasthan was lower than that in Chhattisgarh Assam , Meghalaya, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh , Kerala, Odisha, Uttarakhand , Goa and Karnataka. JAIPUR: Chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Wednesday defended her government’s decision to hike electricity rates in the state, saying these were still among the lowest in the country. “Barring for technical snags, the state is maintaining electricity supply for 22 hours to 24 hours every day,” the chief minister said. She said flat rate consumers in Rajasthan were getting electricity for Rs 120 per Horse Power instead of Rs 635 per Horse Power, as the state government was subsidising it.
    JAIPUR: Chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Wednesday defended her government’s decision to hike electricity rates in the state, saying these were still among the lowest in the country. The state government hiked power tariff by an average 9.6% last month.Raje said power tariff for agriculture in Rajasthan was lower than that in Chhattisgarh Assam , Meghalaya, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh , Kerala, Odisha, Uttarakhand , Goa and Karnataka.”The current rate for agriculture (metered) was Rs 4.75 per unit, of which Rs 3.60 per unit was being subsidized by the state government. We are paying Rs 7200 crore annually to the power companies in lieu of lower rates for agriculture consumers,” Raje while addressing the BJP executive meeting in Udaipur on Wednesday.

    The chief minister said tariff for domestic power in Rajasthan was lower than that in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, the chief minister said. The tariff for non-domestic power was lower than that in Delhi, Kerala, Punjab, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh Power tariff for small-scale industries too was lower than that in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, for medium-scale industries was lower than that in Delhi, Maharashtra, Wes Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, while tariff for large-scale industries here was lower than that in West Bengal and Maharashtra. “It was the previous Congress government that took a cabinet decision to hike power tariff every year after financially ruining the state Discoms,” the chief minister said.The Congress recently held state-wide demonstrations accusing Raje-government of increasing electricity rates to “cover up” financial mismanagement in Discoms and of failure to add “even a single unit” to state’s power generation in past more than two years.  Vonn Bell Jersey

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