PUNE: The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (Merc) on Monday approved an average 6.76 per cent tariff hike for electricity for the year 2008-09. Domestic consumers with monthly consumption of 300 units will have to bear only a marginal increase.
The new tariff rates have come into effect from June 1.
The tariff for domestic consumers in BPL category has remained unchanged at 40 paise per unit. Domestic consumers having 0 to 100 unit consumption will have to pay Rs 2.05 per unit as against Rs 2, those consuming 101 to 300 units will have to pay Rs 3.90 per unit as against Rs 3.70, those with consumption between 301 and 500 units will have to pay Rs 5.30 per unit as against Rs 5 and people consuming above 500 units will have to pay Rs 6.20 per unit as against Rs 5.75 only for the balance units.
Besides increasing tariff for electricity used for luxury, Merc has laid out a new load-shedding protocol and introduced two new categories, i.e. E and F, which will bear more load-shedding for higher transmission and distribution losses and poor revenue collection.
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