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This story is from June 6, 2020

GIM is a private commercial institute, cannot avail tariff like IIMs, IITs: Power department

The Goa electricity department has turned down a request from Goa Institute of Management (GIM) for private management instituted to be billed under the high tension industry category (like IIMs and IITs) instead of commercial category.
GIM is a private commercial institute, cannot avail tariff like IIMs, IITs: Power department
GIM falls under the commercial category, the power department said
PANAJI: The Goa electricity department has turned down a request from Goa Institute of Management (GIM) for private management instituted to be billed under the high tension industry category (like IIMs and IITs) instead of commercial category.
In a tariff order, the department said that IITs and IIMs are government-aided institutes, and that private educational institutes can’t be billed like them.
The department added that IITs and IIMs are billed either under domestic or a separate category for educational institutes with a clause that states that they’re government aided.
“GIM doesn’t come under the category of government-aided institutions,” the department said, requesting the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC), the statutory authority that regulates power in the state, to retain GIM in the category of HT-commercial.
“Even though it is run through a society, significant fees are being charged from students, and hence it cannot be compared with IITs or IIMs,” the order stated.
The JERC clarified that categorisation of consumers is dependent upon the nature of consumption. “Since GIM is a commercial organisation, the consumer has to fall under the commercial category,” the commission stated. Commercial tariffs are applicable to educational institutions in the state excluding government schools and related facilities, whereas high tension industry tariff is applicable for bulk supply of power for educational institutions owned or aided by the government.
Meanwhile, to ensure better planning, the commission has directed the electricity department to start collecting information of energy sales, connected load, number of consumers, power factor, etc, for different types of consumers, including hotels, industries, government and private educational institutions, and government and private hospitals, and submit it by September 30.
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