Congress leader challenges Haryana power tariff hike, files review petition

Senior Congress Leader and former Minister Sampat Singh submitted a petition to a review that challenged the last electricity hike hike in the state in front of the Haryana Electrical Regulatory Commission (HERC). The tariff revision, which entered into force in April, was met with resistance from various consumer categories, including industrial associations and domestic users.

Prof. In his petition, Singh sought a public hearing to address the emergency concerns of consumers. HERC described his order as a “tariff shock ılan experienced by consumers in all categories when they received electricity bills in June. The Congress leader also questioned the pricing mechanism adopted by electricity public services. At a press conference in Chandigarh, he said, “Public services buy 7.964.28 Crore Power Unit per unit and sell it to consumers per unit of 7.29 per unit,” he said.

Prof. According to Singh, the total power purchased reaches consumers only 6,916 Crore unit, which implies transmission and distribution losses exceeding 22%, which is effectively transferred to consumers. In September 2015, Ujwal Discom guarantee, which was carried out by the Haryana Government, won 34,000 crore in the obligations of power public services. Prof. Singh said that Discoms first reported 800 crore profits in March 2021, but instead of reducing tariffs, the burden on consumers increased.

The Congress leader emphasized the effect of the tariff hike on domestic consumers, who are now on fixed wages ranging from ₹ 50 to 75 per KW. In addition, unit costs were increased by 25-50%and fixed fees were introduced for the first time for domestic consumers. Commercial consumers were adversely affected by the unification of categories with low tension (LT) and high voltage (HT) supply, which increased the fixed wages from LA 165 to 290 per KVA to ₹ 290 and ₹ 6.65 to 6.95 per unit fees.

Prof. Singh also criticized the continuation of the unit fuel fuel additional fee adjustment, which must end in June 2024. In addition, the remaining consumers indirectly carry this cost, saying that approximately 22 lakh consumers emphasized the 8,000 Crore default dues.

Meanwhile, various industrial associations, including the Manesar Industries Welfare Association, NCR Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Bahadurgarh Trade and Industry, sought a return to the tariff range to the Minister of Power Anil Vij and Prime Minister Nayab Saini. They called the march as “additional financial load için for small and medium -sized enterprises.

However, Mr. Vij claimed that approximately 94% of the electric consumers in Haryana have entered the category (up to 2 kW load and monthly consumption up to 100 units) and category-II (up to 5 kW burden) and most of their bills are reduced. He stressed that there is no change in electricity tariff for agricultural consumers. For HT consumers, the tariff revision between 2024-25 and 2025-26 increases a moderate moderate of 7% to 10% depending on load and consumption. In the LT category, the Minister added that the increase between various consumers was relatively moderate and ranged from 4 to 7%.

The Minister also compared Haryana’s electricity tariffs with neighboring states and claimed that Haryana significantly reduced electricity tariffs for both LT and HT consumer categories. In neighboring states, fixed wages up to 450 per KW for HT categories and 475 per KW for HT categories, and the energy loads increased to 8.95 per unit for LT and ₹ 7.75 per unit for HT categories.