ADMIN – JUNE 29, 2012 - New Delhi
Fuming over the steep hike in power
tariff, the Resident Welfare Associations demanded that the tariff rates
in the New Delhi Municipal Council area should be brought at par with
those of the three power distribution companies (discoms).
“The NDMC area which caters mostly to
VIP population should have equal power tariff. The government has
always been trying to favour discoms and safeguard their interest,” said
B S Vohra, president, East Delhi RWAs’ Joint Front.
“Major manipulations are done in the
maintenance, unnecessary purchase, deficit in power purchase, change of
equipment and installation of new equipment. The discoms show deficit
every time,” he said.
However, clarifying on power tariff in
the NDMC area, senior power department officials in the Delhi government
said that the sources of power supply in respect of NDMC and the three
discoms are different.
“Discoms and the NDMC are not parallel
as they have been operating on different parameters. The cost of
purchase of power is quite different for both of them. It varies from Rs
2.32 to more than Rs 5 per unit. The NDMC’s major sources of supply are
from three generating sources: BTPS (Badarpur), Pragati-I and Dadri-I
whose cost of energy ranges between Rs 2.32 and Rs.3.40,” said a senior
official.
He said that NDMC and discoms are
operating on different platforms and structure in terms of load, energy
supply and demand, transmission, distribution constraints and source of
power purchase.
“Discoms’s sources of power supply are
from 30 different generating units. In case of discoms, the supply cost
varies depending upon demand, supply, consumer, etc,” added the
official.
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