Cong betrays industry, power tariff enhanced instead of being reduced to Rs five per unit: Sukhbir
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday said the Congress government had betrayed industrialists by sending them enhanced power bills with a tariff increase of around ten per cent on old rates, even while it announced to reduce power tariff to Rs five per unit in the current bill cycle.In a statement here, the SAD president said it was shocking that chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh had announced that power tariff for industry would be lowered to Rs five per unit with effect from last month but had in fact increased it manifold."Besides the earlier tariff rate of around Rs 8 per unit, a further increase of ten per cent has been imposed in the two month power bill being received by consumers currently", he added.T.....