Telangana: Waive power bills of BPL families, MSMEs, says Congress

HYDERABAD: Congress condemned the silence on the part of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over complaints of inflated electricity bills and demanded that he immediately convene a cabinet meeting to waive electricity bills for all the BPL families and micro, small and medium enterprises.
The party also demanded that the government adopt the telescopic method to calculate tariff per unit of power consumed.“People have now started getting bills for the month of June. Most of these bills include huge arrears as people were not able to pay their bill for the lockdown period,” said Telangana Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy.
Congress leaders and members staged protests at various places against the steep electricity bills and later submitted copies of memorandum addressed to KCR and to the electricity department officials demanding 100% waiver of power bill to BPL families, MSMEs and to shift to non-telescopic method of billing.