DMK to protest power tariff

Coimbatore: Members of DMK are planning to stage a protest at Peelamedu in the city on Tuesday, condemning discrepancies in power tariff.
The protest would be presided over by DMK MLA N Karthik. “In the name of providing sufficient time to pay bimonthly electricity bill for February and March, the state government has added additional burden on the public by summing up the number of units consumed in the last four months,” Karthik said.
Explaining that the electricity board charges Rs 3.5 for every unit consumed between 101 and 200, Rs 4.6 for every unit consumed between 201 and 500, Rs 6.6 for units consumed between 500 and 620 and so on, he said, by totalling the consumed units for four months, the EB had put each one of us in higher slabs, thereby leading to the bill amount shooting up manifold. A person who was paying Rs 2000 as electricity bill earlier, is now paying close to Rs 10,000, he added.
“We demand the state government to withdraw the way they calculate the tariff and provide subsidy for the consumers. We also request them to allow consumers to pay the bill amount in multiple instalments as some of them have lost their jobs in the pandemic and are struggling to manage their day-to-day expenses,” he said.