Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday said that the state government has dealt a severe blow to the middle class by imposing an additional burden of 52 paise per unit per billing cycle on the electricity consumers as a fuel surcharge adjustment (FSA).
According to the officials, the FSA has been imposed for a period of over one year – from April 1, 2023, to June 2024 – in lieu of the arrangement of electricity from private players through short-term agreements during the summer season of 2022. An official said: “The consumers of agriculture sector and the consumers of up to 200 units of power per month will be exempted from the FSA.”
