Mangaluru: Mescom proposes increase of unit rate by Rs 1.67 for 2021-22 fiscal
Sun, Jan 03 2021 09:55:04 AM
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)
Mangaluru, Jan 3: Mescom (Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited) has sent a proposal to KERC (Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission) to increase the rate of electricity by Rs 1.67 per unit for the fiscal 2021-22.
Mescom has sent this proposal keeping in mind users of all categories in rural as well as urban areas. This proposal is sent by Mescom as its present income is not sufficient to fulfil essentials of the department.
In the proposal recovery of specified charges, demand charges and 30% specified charges is considered. In the proposal, Mescom has also requested to consider revision of cross subsidy, surcharge and additional surcharge according to the annual income of 2021-22.
Waste to energy or waste of energy?
Waste to energy or waste of energy?
ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Dec 21, 2020, 06:00 IST
Residents and environmentalists claim
waste segregation
Early this month, the state government laid the foundation stone for a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant at Bidadi, which is being built by the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL). Of the remaining four such plants, one project proposed near
Kannahalli landfill with the capacity to process 1,000 tonnes per day is expected to take off anytime soon. Other proposals are currently under examination at different departments.
The model of agreement between the government and different private players appear to be, more or less, the same. While the company makes an initial investment of about Rs 250 crore for setting up infrastructure, the government provides free land, about 35 per cent of the project cost in the form of subsidy and tipping fee (per tonne basis) to process the waste ti
A Victory Cast in Stone Mysore Victory Stone
Government is on the backfoot with determined farmers, especially from the northern states, protesting peacefully against the Farm Laws. They are joined by farmers and workers countrywide. Whatever the official obfuscations, this is a People’s agitation/ protest against laws which they well understand will do them harm.
In present times, barring ritual voting in elections, the will of We the People rarely receives recognition. A people s victory is rarer still when central and state governments impose laws and projects according to a pattern of development that is being questioned.
Therefore, victories of We the People need to be recalled, so that those who struggle to assert their rights may be encouraged to soldier on. Although its scale and width does not compare with the on-going farmers’ agitations, it is good to recall a People’s victory won by peaceful means, commemorated on July 24, 2010, with a “Vijayagallu” (Victo