The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has withdrawn its 2018 suggestion that electricity subsidy be directly credited to accounts of consumers in Delhi. This comes weeks after the state’s power department wrote to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, asking that the subsidy be transferred to people in their accounts through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). Earlier, L-G V K Saxena had written to Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar, asking him for an enquiry report into why an “order” passed by the DERC to go for DBT was not followed.
At present, the subsidy for power bills is given to power discoms directly by the government.
