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Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer of the Vijayawada Railway Division, Ch. Dinesh Reddy appealed to the AP Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC) to nonstop the State powerfulness utilities to rationalise the tariffs charged by them, by considering the information that the Railways was not a profit-driven entity and the Electricity Act, the National Tariff Policy and Ministry of Power’s directives advocated cost-reflective tariffs and simplification of cross-subsidies, particularly for deemed licensees (like the Railways).
Making submissions connected behalf of the South Central Railway (SCR) astatine a nationalist proceeding conducted by the APERC connected the Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) filings of the DISCOMs for 2026-27, present connected Thursday, Mr. Dinesh Reddy noted that the SCR has felt the request to bargain powerfulness from generators / traders of its prime (open access) for a agelong clip arsenic a statutory close nether Section 42 of the Electricity Act, 2003 due to the fact that the mean tariff charged by AP DISCOMs was the highest successful 5 States but was incapable to workout the enactment owed to pending tribunal cases.
He stated that the mean portion terms of energy successful A.P. was ₹9.30 compared to ₹7.03 successful Telangana, ₹6.74 successful Chhattisgarh, ₹6.29 successful Odisha and ₹5.79 successful Kerala. Power was disposable astatine ₹6.53 successful Maharashtra and ₹6.16 successful Karnataka nether unfastened access. He suggested that the existing tariff nether HT-IV(D) Railway Traction class successful A.P. should beryllium reviewed and rationalised to alteration the Railways to trim operational costs thereby easing the load connected nationalist and supporting ongoing electrification and infrastructure upgrades.
A competitory traction tariff successful enactment with unfastened entree States, peculiarly Odisha and Telangana, was needed to trim the load caused by precocious tariffs, helium said, pointing retired that they were higher by ₹3.10 to ₹3.40 per portion compared to ₹6 to ₹6.50 charged successful 14 different States. Fairness successful tariff attraction was indispensable to align with nationalist argumentation and operational viability and being a bulk user of energy and punctual payer of vigor bills, the Railways ought to person a rationalised tariff schedule, Mr. Dinesh Reddy stressed.
