The Chhattisgarh Government purchased about 5,811 million units of power from private power producers in the last two years to meet the shortfall in the State, Chief Minister Raman Singh said on Monday.
In a reply to a question asked by Congress member Shankar Dhruva, the Chief Minister informed the State Assembly that the power was purchased on an average rate slabs of Rs3.10 and Rs3.23 per unit.
He said the power purchased from private producers in 2012-2013 was 3,364 million units at the rate of Rs3.10 per unit. Similarly in 2013-2014 until January, the State purchased 2,447 million units at the rate of Rs3.23 per unit.
All power producers have been connected to the State grid and it was not possible to provide information on the amount of power they supplied inside the state and outside.
He said during 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, the transmission companies managed to get Rs63.74 crore revenue because of the use of electric lines. They transmitted a total 1948 million units of electricity.
In 2012-2013 long and medium period transmission rate was Rs1.391 lakh megawatts per month, while for short period transmission rate was Rs22.40 per unit. In 2013-2014 it was Rs1.447 lakh and Rs33.00 respectively, he said.