Maha govt to seek tariff proposals before submission to MERC

Maharashtra Energy Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule today said the government will ask the power distribution companies to show their tariff proposals to the state government before submitting them to Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) for approval.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, during his visit here last week, had taken out a protest march (padyatra) against the high power tariff in Mumbai.
Replying to a question, the minister said the government too felt that the power tariffs of various distribution companies should be uniform.
"The government also feels that the power tariff for consumers who use less than 200 units per month should be less," he said.

He further said the state government cannot interfere with the tariff proposals decided by MERC but the government will convene a meeting of power distribution companies to work out something so that residential consumers consuming less than 200 units are not made to pay more.