While sweltering heat and humid conditions have made life of the residents miserable and they daily battle with unscheduled power cuts, the government is working on burdening them with hike in power tariff. The PDP-BJP coalition government is pressing for immediate approval for 13.5 per cent hike in electricity tariff from the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), proposal for which has been submitted by the Power Development Department (PDD). Officials said as the gap between revenue and supply of power was increasing alarmingly burdening the state’s economy, the coalition government…
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