With an eye on the upcoming Assembly elections, the Capt Amarinder Singh-led Punjab Government has announced a cut of 50 paise to Re 1 per unit for domestic power consumers in the state.
The tariff for the commercial consumers and small and medium industry will remain unchanged, while there is a negligible (less than 2 per cent) increase in tariff for large industrial consumers.
The per unit tariff for domestic consumers with load upto 2kW and consumption slabs of 0 to 100 units and 101 to 300 units has been reduced by Re 1 and 50 paise, respectively.
