The Chhattisgarh State Congress Committee in a Press statement issued here on Saturday has said that Chhattisgarh was an electricity surplus State till 2003. It alleged that the BJP Government slowly had pushed the power consumers into darkness. The common man has already been harassed with the increase in the hike of power tariff, and now the Chhattisgarh Electricity Regulatory Commission has given indication for further increase in the power tariff, the release added.
In the press statement, spokesman of the Congress, Mahendra Chhabra, said that the Electricity Regulatory Commission is going to hold a public hearing on the proposal of the Power Distribution Company on May 16. Earlier also public hearing was held before hiking the power tariff, in which the Congress peoples’ representatives had registered a lot of objections, but by sidelining the objections the power tariff had been increased due to pressure from the state government, he added.
He said that the common man in the state has been compelled to use electricity with high price because of the mismanagement of the energy department and the power companies of the state and non-control of the expenditure and corruption of the power companies.