The UPPCL (UP Power Corporation Ltd) is gearing up to take the pending tariff dispute with its lone foreign consumer to the Indo-Nepal Power Exchange Committee for arbitration. The committee is scheduled to hold its 14th meeting shortly in Delhi.
The foreign consumer, in question here, is the Nepal government that has a heavy electricity connection of 5,000 kw/kva subscribed in the name of “project incharge”, Nepalganj but has power dues of more than ₹19 crore pending against it.
The UPPCL and Nepal authorities are in dispute over the charging of electricity tariff with the former insisting that it will charge tariff as per the rate revised and fixed by the UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) while the latter is demanding the tariff be charged at the rate fixed during the agreement when it subscribed to the connection.
