Compensate industry for forced electricity shutdown: Sukhbir Singh Badal tells CM Amarinder Singh
SHIROMANI AKALI Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday demanded that the Congress government in Punjab provide financial package to industry for losses suffered by it due to shutdown “on account of power supply mismanagement”.
He also demanded the power be supplied to the industry “at the promised landing cost of Rs 5 per unit” instead of “Rs 10 per unit the industry was currently paying”.
“After suffering huge losses due to the Covid lockdown since the last one and a half years, the industrial sector is presently in the grip of a power lockdown with the government imposing a three day compulsory off besides closing down large scale industries for five days and reducing contracted power load of continuous supply by fifty per cent.
