The BJP’s Delhi unit on Saturday said that the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission should direct the power companies not to increase tariff till the audit by the CAG is complete. “On one hand, all the three private power companies of Delhi are putting hindrance in the way of audit by the CAG; on the other hand, the DERC has started the process of considering the request by the private power companies for increasing tariff.
This is injustice to the consumers,” the BJP’s Delhi president Dr Harsh Vardhan said in a letter to the lt Governor. “If the power tariff is hiked before the audit, then it would be an unbearable burden on the public,” said Vardhan. The CAG informed the High Court that the private power companies were not providing necessary papers and account books for audit. “It has also been learnt that the power companies have two types of account books, one genuine, the other forged,” Vardhan alleged.