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.