The electricity company is planning to recover more amount from the consumers who want to make paying guest accommodation in their houses. For this a new tariff plan of MP Electricity Regulatory Commission has been made as the basis according to which the house owner keeping paying guests have been kept in the non-domestic category. From such houses the electricity bill at the rate of ` 6 per unit in place of `3.04 would be recovered.
The MP Electricity Regulatory Commission has enforced a new tariff plan for the financial year 2014-15 in which the paying guests and tenents have been kept in different categories in which the house owners keeping paying guests would be included in Category 2.1 of non-domestic consumers.
According to MP power distribution company the new tariff plan would be immediately enforced after privatisation and taking over new company. The electricity company is going to conduct survey of posh colonies and locality near about colleges. The house owners hiding the information of paying guests would be penalised for theft of electricity. The Chief Engineer MP State electricity distribution company Virendra Gupta said, “This change is being made under the tariff plan of MP State Regulatory Commission. For this the new company has started its preparations.
After enforcement of this arrangement the house owners keeping paying guests would get more costly electricity. Before the taking over of MP Central Zone Electricity Distribution Company the private company Monto Carlo has started collected information of the locality where coaching centres and colleges are in large number. The localities include Gandhi Nagar, laxmi Bai Colony, Kherapati Colony, Ravi Nagar, Chetakpuri, Sriram Colony, Madhav Nagar, Vivek Vihar, Hari Shankarpuram, MP Nagar, Vasant Vihar Gola Ka Mandir, Chandravadani Naka, Ravi Shankar hostel, lalitpur Colony and Aamkho etc.