UP Rajya Vidyut Upbhokta Parishad, a power consumers’ body, has sought chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s intervention in UP Power Corporation Ltd’s (UPPCL) alleged plan to increase the electricity tariff indirectly by making changes in the existing slabs.
As the UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) begins public hearings from June 21 to know stakeholders’ views before announcing the new power tariff order for 2022-23, the UPPCL is believed to have renewed the bid to get the tariff structure changed in such a way so that its overall revenue collection increases, though it has not proposed any formal tariff hike.
Upbhokta Parishad chairman Avdhesh Kumar Verma on Sunday said the UPPCL had again mooted the proposal for changes in the tariff slabs despite the fact that UPERC rejected the proposal twice in the past.
