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PANAJI
Power Minister Pandurang Madkaikar, on Monday, announced that the government would subsidize the power tariff for those consumers who consume between 0-200 units with even the 4.9% hike proposed for this section of consumers being revoked.
Addressing a press conference, Madkaikar said that they would inform the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) of the decision and the hikes would only be effected for persons who consume a larger number of units.
“We will give a subsidy and those domestic consumers who use between 0-100 units and those who use between 101 and 200 units will have their rates unchanged. There will be no hike, not even the 4.9% hike we had initially proposed,” Madkaikar announced.
