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Karnataka MSMEs object to proposed hike in tariff by KERC Bengaluru, Feb 16 (KNN) Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA) has opposed the move by the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM), which proposed a hike in tariff for the upcoming financial year, at the public hearing organised by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC).
BESCOM has stated that the Gap for FY 22 is Rs 3556.64 crores and hence has requested the Commission to hike the tariff by 139 paise per unit for all category of consumers.
Objecting the move, KASSIA on Monday, said the proposed revision would come within five months, ending up discouraging industries, and sought the KERC to continue the existing tariff for another year.
Teen loses hand due to electrical injuries
Teen loses hand due to electrical injuries
ByBellie ThomasBellie Thomas / Updated: Feb 15, 2021, 06:00 IST
A 12-year-old boy is battling for his life at the Victoria Hospital’s
Burns Ward after he sustained electrical shock injuries from a newly installed transformer. On 25 January, the victim was playing outside his house in Lakshmidevinagar in
Nandini Layout, when he used the newly-erected
transformer for support and was electrocuted. As treatment. the doctors had to amputate one of his hand, and are now considering amputating the other, to save his life.
The incident took place on 25 January at around 3.20 pm, when Avez Khan was playing behind a mosque in KSCB quarters. Just a week prior to the incident, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (
Kassia opposes Bescom’s tariff hike request
February 15, 2021
Urges govt to entrust Bescom to public/private management
Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (Kassia) has opposed the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company’s (Bescom) request to hike tariff by 139 paise per unit for all category of consumers, before the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC).
“There is considerable scope for reduction in costs and improving efficiencies to set off the proposed additional expenditure by Bescom. Therefore the present tariff revision petition should be rejected,” Kassia argued before the KERC.
“In order to improve the efficiency of Bescom, the Commission may order it to call for competitive tariff bidding and the management of Bescom may be entrusted to a public/private lowest tariff bidder,” it added.
Burdened by the impact of the pandemic, citizens and industry bodies have slammed the move by the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom), which proposed a hike in tariff for the upcoming financ
Bescom is transforming and taking its power infra underground
Summers not only bring a rise in mercury but
power cuts too, as power consumption increases with air conditioners and fans working overtime. Many areas in Bengaluru are already facing frequent power cuts giving rise to the speculation that unscheduled load shedding has started already. However,
Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) officials say that there is no power shortage. Instead
Karnataka is now a ‘power surplus’ state. But you will still face power cuts and that’s because of Bescom is laying underground cables.
WFH affected
With many people still working from home, frequent power cuts are affecting deadlines. “I stay in Bhuvaneshwari Nagar and there was no power on Monday from 8.30 am to 8.30 pm. When you have such long power cuts, having a