JAMMU: Senior BJP leader Devender Singh Rana today expressed his party’s gratitude to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for positively responding to the plea taken up with regard to the proposed hike in the power tariff and assuring against any such move in the near future to increase the rates to every category of consumers across Jammu and Kashmir in the larger public interest.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here this morning, Rana said that this important issue, flagged by a deputation of Federation of Industries Jammu to the Pradesh BJP Trade and Industry Cell, was taken up with the Lieutenant Governor, who responded very positively keeping larger public interest in view.
Devender Rana, who also oversees the working of Industries, Tourism, Trade, Transport & Cooperative Cells, flanked by Conveners & Co-conveners of the respective cells said that the Federation of Industries had vehemently sought the intervention in getting the issue resolved as any move by the Jammu Power Development Corporation to increase the power tariff would be detrimental to the growth of Industry.
“They had pleaded that the further increase to the already hike of 25 to 38 percent in the power tariff effected in October 2022 was not desirable as Jammu and Kashmir was bearing a little less than the tariff structure in neighboring Punjab and more than Himachal Pradesh,” he added.
