Power tariff can include discom employees salaries, allowances, pension: HC
The Delhi High Court has held that the cost incurred by power distribution companies (discoms) can be considered while fixing tariff and it would include salaries, allowances and pension of their employees.
The ruling by a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar came while dismissing a PIL which had alleged that power regulator DERC had allowed collection of more than Rs 3,000 crore since 2011 towards a government pension fund from consumers through their electricity bills without informing them.
It also dismissed a PIL initiated by the court on its own based on a letter by a Federation of the Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) of Yamuna Vihar in north-east Delhi, opposing a 3.8 per cent surcharge added to the power bills of BSES and BYPL consumers towards pension of erstwhile Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) employees.
