Chennai, June 26 (BPNS)
AIADMK expelled leader and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, O. Panneerselvam (OPS) has urged the state government to put preassure on the central government to roll back on changes in the Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020.
The former Chief Minister pointed out that in respect of day time, the proposed Tariff under the Time of Day (ToD) system, would be less than 10-20% less than the normal tariff and during the night it would be 10-20% higher.
OPS referred to the applicability of the new tariff for commercial and industrial consumers from April 1, 2024 and for the rest, except for agricultural consumers from April 1,2025. The former Chief Minister said that this was an indirect means to for power tariff hike for the domestic consumers as it was during night that people used electricity more and added that the proposed hike may lead to inflation also.
It is to be noted that the ToD tariff would be made effective immediately after the installation of smart meters.
He charged that the DMK government seems to be indirectly supporting the move as there have not been any comments from the ruling front on the matter.
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