{"id":482666,"date":"2022-04-06T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T04:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482666"},"modified":"2022-04-06T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T05:28:09","slug":"power-tariff-increase-puts-bwssb-in-troubled-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariff-increase-puts-bwssb-in-troubled-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tariff increase puts BWSSB in troubled waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year-on-year increase in electricity tariff has left the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) in a fix because its expenditure is only rising while the revenue has stagnated for nearly eight years now. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) approved a five-paise per-unit increase in electricity tariff in Bengaluru. This could increase the BWSSB\u2019s expenditure by at least Rs 2 crore a month. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2014, when we last revised our tariff, our expenditure on electricity was approximately Rs 30 crore a month. During the course of the next eight years, the Bescom tariff has been revised multiple times, forcing us to spend Rs 70-75 crore a month on electricity alone,\u201d a senior BWSSB official said on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year-on-year increase in electricity tariff has left the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) in a fix because its expenditure is only rising while the revenue has stagnated for nearly eight years now. On Monday, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) approved a five-paise per-unit increase in electricity tariff in Bengaluru. This could increase the BWSSB\u2019s expenditure by at least Rs 2 crore a month. \u201cIn 2014, when we last revised our tariff, our expenditure on electricity was approximately Rs 30 crore a month. During the course of the next eight years, the Bescom tariff has been revised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}