Himachal Assembly Session: Oppn question power tariff hike amid pandemic

Energy Minister Sukh Ram Chaudhary stated that there are round 20 lakh home customers of electrical energy in Himachal, who devour round 2,100 million devices of chronic in a 12 months.

The 9th day of the continuing monsoon consultation of Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Thursday noticed opposition elevating the problem of the ability tariff hike pronouncing that it has dealt a blow to the average guy already going through financial disaster because of the pandemic disruption whilst the federal government argued that the hike most effective focused high-end customers whilst others remained unaffected.

July onwards, the state executive decreased the subsidy given to home electrical energy customers eating greater than 125 devices per 30 days.

Congress MLA Harshwardhan Chauhan, some of the participants who moved a answer to talk about the problem, stated that lakhs of folks from Himachal running in different states returned house right through the pandemic, whilst companies and employment alternatives inside the state have been critically disrupted. “As a substitute of offering reduction to the general public, the federal government imposed the next chronic tariff whilst bus fares have been additionally greater via 25 in line with cent,” he stated.

Rohru MLA Mohan Lal Brakta alleged that his constituency suffered an influence blackout of 5 days whilst Sujanpur MLA Rajinder Rana stated that the landlord of a small store in his space won a invoice of Rs 1.64 lakh. Opposition participants additionally stated that there are extended delays within the supply of electrical energy expenses, which might be on occasion inflated.

In his answer, Energy Minister Sukh Ram Chaudhary stated that there are round 20 lakh home customers of electrical energy in Himachal, who devour round 2,100 million devices of chronic in a 12 months. The federal government supplies a subsidy of Rs 400-450 crore to those customers, round 18 in line with cent of which matches to 11 lakh, or 55 in line with cent of customers who devour upto 125 devices a month. There was no relief in subsidy to those customers who fall within the first slab, whilst the ones eating 126-300 devices (2d slab) and above 300 devices (3rd slab) will see an building up of Rs 40-213 and Rs 213-357 of their per 30 days expenses respectively, Chaudhary stated.

He additional stated that the federal government will save round Rs 110 crore in line with 12 months in subsidy. This determination, he stated, was once taken to advertise power conservation amongst the ones the usage of extra chronic and to proper the regressive subsidy scheme since 82 % of it went to these falling in the second one and 3rd slabs, amongst different causes. The minister added that he’s going to glance into the particular power-related problems raised via more than a few MLAs.

Cong levels walkout

Quickly after the Space assembled, Congress participants demanded a dialogue on “task reservation being denied to participants of the scheduled tribes and castes within the state, and flawed allocation of budget to SC/ST sub-plans” underneath an adjournment movement, sooner than staging a walkout over the problem.

Speaker Vipin Singh Parmar stated Jagat Singh Negi and a few different Congress legislators submitted him a understand within the morning to transport an adjournment movement underneath Rule 67 to talk about two Dalit-related problems. Parmar stated the walkout via the opposition celebration was once premeditated as its legislators began elevating slogans with out looking forward to the ruling of the Chair at the understand for adjournment.

The Speaker stated the awareness was once given to talk about two other subjects, including that the Congress legislators attempted to create a scene as an alternative of presenting the context for adjournment movement.

Leader Minister Jairam Thakur and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Bhardwaj additionally criticised the Congress for staging the walkout.

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