Residents of Madhya Pradesh are doomed to face the power shortage and cuts along with often being subjected to hike in power tariff. Power supply in houses is reducing whereas the electricity bills are shooting up. Power theft has arisen to worth crores of rupees with 40 per cent of generated power lost in theft.
The losses in this situation are obviously incurred by the power distribution companies. These losses cannot be recovered from the people engaged in stealing electricity. They are nonchalant with how much are the tariffs hiked. The brunt of losses of power theft is ultimately borne by the consumer who is charged by the electricity meter. The task of stopping the power theft is imperative to the government and the distribution companies. The common consumer is totally helpless to stop this theft while falling prey to hike of tariff.
The new tariff has been approved and they have been increased by average 3.61 per cent. The new rates would come into force after one week from August 6 and consumers would get electricity bills with increased tariff from the month of September. The tariff for residential users have been hiked by two to four times with rates 7.40 per cent to 14.2 per cent.
The Electricity Regulatory Commission has introduced the telescopic system for per unit consumption of power. The Commission has set target for distribution companies to reduce the transmission and distribution losses. Commission is giving suggestion to the government to stop the losses in transmission and distribution. 63 per cent of State population lives in 55,000 villages and 37 per cent are urban residents. Most of the villages are reeling under power cuts up to 12 hours. If the power theft is not stopped, the tariff would continue to rise unabatedly.
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