UP – Lucknow – Getting Electricity Connection will be costlier by 44%, UPPCL submits proposal to Regulatory Commission, Consumer Council Parishad against the decision | Getting electricity connection in Lucknow will be costlier by 44 percent: Consumer Council came out in protest, rates have not increased for the last 4 years – Lucknow News

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The Consumer Council has announced that it has been proposed after a long discussion with the Power Corporation Regulatory Commission. The cost data book has been prepared on a large scale. The Consumer Council will raise this in the meeting of the Supply Code Review Panel Sub Committee. The burden of the increase in rates will not fall on the consumers of the state.

arbitrary increase

Awadhesh Kumar Verma, President of UP State Electricity Consumer Council and member of State Advisory Committee, has accused the Power Corporation of arbitrariness. He said, the way it is seen in the cost data book, it seems that the Power Corporation has proposed the cost data book arbitrarily and in a hurry. Due to which, in the coming time, there will be a big increase in the rates of new connections for small and big electricity consumers. Where the new rates of commercial connection industries will increase by more than 100%.