DVC outages prompt hard coke factory owners to petition Centre
More than 75 hard coke factory owners of the coal belt have written to the Centre against DVC, accusing the power utility of arm-twisting industrial consumers by resorting to prolonged power cuts in the name of recovering dues.
On Thursday, their representative outfit, the Industries and Commerce Association, wrote to the Union Minister of State (independent charge) of Power, New and Renewable Energy, Raj Kumar Singh, pointing out that the regular power outage being resorted to by DVC was affecting industrial production and leading to massive financial losses.
The chief of the association B.N. Singh equated the power cuts carried out by DVC to the behavior of a traditional money lender who uses threats to recover money. “This is highly unbecoming of a corporation which is supposed to be a model organisation,” said Singh in his letter.
