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A clutch of bodies representing thousands of MSMEs successful Telangana came unneurotic connected Wednesday, nether the banner of the Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTCCI), and voiced their concerns implicit the surge successful energy bills pursuing caller changes, including withdrawal of time-of-day (ToD) concession.
The State authorities should clasp wider consultations with stakeholders earlier rolling retired specified measures similar the Hyderabad Industrial Lands Transformation Policy (HILTP), which seeks to relocate concern units beyond Outer Ring Road (ORR).
While the summation successful powerfulness bills has travel arsenic a daze and devour into margins, HILTP could endanger beingness of units, some continuing astatine the aforesaid spot and those resited, the relation leaders led by FTCCI president R. Ravikumar sought to highlight.
Apart from FTCCI, representatives of Telangana Industrialists’ Federation, Telangana Iron and Steel Manufacturers’ Association, Federation of Telangana Small Industries’ Associations, Cherlapally Industries’ Association, Industrial Area Local Authority Gandhinagar and Telangana State Solar Open Access Developers’ Association, spoke astatine the media enactment here.
Stating that energy bills person changeable up 70% to arsenic overmuch arsenic 4 times, the leaders attributed this to abrupt implementation of unblocking of Lead kVArh. DISCOMs person abruptly unblocked pb kVArh billing for commercialized and concern consumers, efficaciously forcing them to determination distant from pb powerfulness origin conditions successful a span of conscionable 3 months, TSOADA General Secretary Venkat N.N.K and others said.
The manufacture bodies privation capable clip for transition, on with consciousness and method guidance programmes, and a holistic valuation by an adept committee. They are demanding either restoration of nighttime ToD concession (of ₹1.50 per unit) oregon a higher concession connected daytime tariff, particularly with DISCOMs procuring a important information of powerfulness from star sources astatine comparatively little cost.
Calling for rethink and recalibration of respective captious argumentation and regulatory measures adversely impacting industry, investments and employment, they said HILTP lacks clarity connected the relocation support, compensation mechanisms, timelines and the improvement of alternate concern ecosystems extracurricular the ORR. Allowing commercialized improvement successful concern estates volition implicit clip marque it challenging for those portion that remain.
Relocation of units requires years of planning, approvals, infrastructure readiness, particularly connectivity, and workforce alignment, FTCCI VP Srinivas Garimella and TIF president K. Sudhir Reddy said, urging authorities to support the argumentation successful abeyance and follow a consultative approach.
Uncertainty and unilateral decisions would travel successful the mode of attracting caller investments and bolstering capitalist confidence, the concern bodies said, pointing retired that though the Clean and Green Energy Policy was announced successful January 2025, nary NOCs person been issued to star developers. There are besides hurdles successful unfastened entree powerfulness procurement, precocious further surcharge and wheeling charges, they said.
