Facing all round protests over the proposed hike in the electricity charges, the power companies might extract money from consumers’ pocket by other ways. Since, the protests are still on, it is expected that the Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC), instead of increasing the current electricity charges, might resort to new ways.
Factually, the power companies are running in huge losses due to prevailing mismanagement in them and in order to recover losses are readying to burden the honest consumers. In the process, the companies could adopt many ways including Fuel Cast Adjustment (FCA). Notably, the consumers are already paying higher electricity bills, no matter whatever the fixed electricity rates are. Because, there are many charges apart from electricity charges that consumers could not understand easily. The electricity provided at the rate of four to five rupees per unit actually costs eight to ten rupees per unit.
The power company has sent proposal of increasing electricity charges to the ERC. The reason provided for this by the power company was that it is suffering losses to the tune of Rs1,700 crore. Hearing over it was held in the ERC on March 20. During that the proposed hike was opposed by all quarters. Seeing the all-round protests over the proposed hike there are possibilities that hike in electricity rates should not be changed much but the FCA could be increased to a minimum of ten per cent.
The ERC is having the proposal from Central Region Power Distribution Company for an increase of 22 per cent in electricity charges. The officers of the power companies are of the view that the losses have come down from 45 per cent to 24 per cent during the past ten years. But at the same time expenditure ahs also increased and that is why proposal for hike in the electricity rates has been sent to the ERC.
Children may be abnormally fearful because they come to see the world as unsafe. Their parents' over-protectiveness discourages normal, healthy risk-taking like riding a carousel for the first time or enjoying playground activities.
Since overprotection is based on power over the child, children learn that power is important. Obedient children are desirable, but when they learn that one never questions authority, they may grow up without tools to assess the demands of powerful peers who might encourage dangerous behavior.
Parents may find themselves unable to communicate with their children as they mature. Over-protectiveness encourages compliance, not communication, and it may encourage untruthful communication. The basis for honest, mutually respectful bonds is not strong.
A reward-punishment system can lead to adults who are materialistic and manipulative. Intrinsic motivation may be absent and doing the right thing because it is right may be a foreign concept. Also, feelings of having done wrong may produce depression as the child matures because he has been raised to feel that bad acts and thoughts are and unacceptable part of who he is.
Resentful feelings toward parents may result as children see that most children have more freedom to make decisions and take age-appropriate risks. Resentment may turn to revolt as the teen years approach as the child seeks to escape from what they may perceive as unfairness.
Parents who come to doubt their overprotective tendencies may start by talking with parents whom they regard as successful and more relaxed in parenting styles. Having reasonable expectations about age-appropriate behavior is essential. Children are not little adults. They need time and opportunities to simply be children.
They must gradually come to specific milestones before they develop ethical behavior and understand that lying and stealing, for example, are wrong. They need guidance to know that playing with knives or wandering away are dangerous. Over-reacting parents will have no better results in making important points than parents who can calmly sit down and communicate with a child on his level.
Every whimper or cry from a distressed child is not a signal for a parent spring into action. The world of children is full of frustrations and minor accidents that they must come to understand as part of life and develop better ways to cope. Parents should encourage these coping skills by reacting with reason.
Overprotective or authoritarian parents put children at risk for problematic behavior later in life. Parenting is hard task without making it overwhelming by getting stressed over every need a child has - the stress itself can become part of a child's personality. Be careful, be watchful, but temper care with reasonable expectations.
Overprotective parenting can cause the lack of the development of self-esteem in a child. This is because the child is not allowed to face challenges without parental intervention. Part of the development of self-esteem in children comes from surmounting challenges on their own, which can be denied to them by overprotective parenting.
As children grow, they progress from total dependence during their first years of life to a higher degree of independence in their teenage years, when they start feeling the need to create their own identity. Parents may feel overly protective of their kids and want to control every aspect of their lives.