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The Dharwad territory portion of All India Kisan Khet Mazdoor Sangathan (AIKKMS) has urged the State authorities to cull the exertion of Tata Power Company Limited (TPCL) for parallel energy organisation licence successful 15 districts.
In a property merchandise issued here, territory caput of AIKKMS Sharanu Gonawar has said that the astir ₹40,000 crore losses being faced by the 5 State-owned energy proviso companies (ESCOMs) and the State government’s evident involvement successful energy privatization tin propulsion the cultivation assemblage into a crisis.
Therefore, the Karnataka State Committee of the All India Kisan Khet Mazdoor Sangathan (AIKKMS) is seeking the contiguous rejection of the applications submitted by Tata Power Company Limited seeking parallel energy organisation licence successful the operational areas of the State-owned ESCOMs, namely BESCOM, MESCOM, HESCOM and CESCOM.
In the release, AIKKMS has said that If energy organisation is handed implicit to backstage companies, payment schemes specified arsenic Bhagya Jyothi and Kutira Jyothi, implemented for mediocre agrarian households, mightiness beryllium gradually discontinued, depriving the mediocre of entree to affordable electricity.
The projected determination mightiness effect successful discontinuation of 7 hours of uninterrupted escaped energy successful villages arsenic backstage companies mightiness follow a profit-driven “pay and receive” model.
Furthermore, aft privatization, precedence mightiness progressively displacement towards concern consumers, portion agrarian areas person little attention.
In a concern erstwhile farmers are already struggling owed to the lack of remunerative enactment prices and are migrating to towns successful hunt of livelihoods, if energy becomes scarce and expensive, farmers mightiness find it intolerable to proceed farming, the merchandise said.
Karnataka already possesses an extended energy organisation infrastructure developed utilizing nationalist funds. Creating different parallel web of sub-stations, transformers and organisation lines successful the aforesaid areas volition effect successful unnecessary duplication of assets and wastage of resources.
Such duplication is economically inefficient and volition yet enforce further costs connected consumers done assorted charges and regulatory mechanisms, the merchandise said.
AIKKMS volition impulse the State authorities to cull the exertion by TPCL and behaviour a broad and autarkic socio-economic interaction appraisal connected the effects of granting parallel organisation licence, peculiarly regarding the cross-subsidy exemplary and the fiscal implications for the State Exchequer, earlier considering specified applications for nationalist hearings, the merchandise said.
