Industry leaders came out strongly against a proposal to hike power tariffs on Tuesday, their argument predictably based on irregular supply and erratic billing by Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam (JBVNL) that has approached regulators for an increase in charges from the next fiscal across all categories of consumption except agriculture.
“Dar nirdharan se pahle hamara dard nibaran hona chahiye (We must get relief from our pain before revision of tariff),” said chairman of the industry sub-committee of Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FJCCI) Ajay Bhandari while addressing a public hearing conducted by Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JSERC) chairman Arbind Prasad at IMA Hall here.
