BRS to participate in ERC public hearings on power tariff hikes

Hyderabad: Continuing its fight against power tariff hike, the BRS decided to participate in the public hearings to be held by the State Electricity Regulartory Commission (ERC) over the next three days commencing from Wednesday.

The party working president KT Rama Rao stated that the BRS will oppose the anti-people policies of the State government and fight against the proposed tariff hikes.

While Rama Rao along with former MP B Vinod Kumar and MLC L Ramana will participate in the public hearing at Sircilla, Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council S Madhusudhanachary and former Minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy will lead the BRS delegation at Hyderabad and Nizamabad respectively.

The BRS working president led a delegation of legislators along with former Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy to meet with the ERC on Monday, opposing the proposed tariff hike.

He termed the proposals irrational especially increasing fixed charges per unit from Rs 10 to a whopping Rs 50 for any domestic consumer who uses more than 300 units and a uniform slab for all industrial categories - from MSMEs to mega industries.

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