Cong govt unable to fulfill promise of Rs five per unit power to State industry – SAD
After running away from waiving off farmer loans and giving jobs to youth, the Congress government has now turned away from its commitment to supply power to the State industry at Rs five per unit, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) said.
In a statement here, former minister and SAD spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said this was exposed when the Congress government refused to include the commitment to supply power in the consent letter submitted to the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Authority (PSERC). “This means industrialists will not be supplied power at Rs 5 per unit but will continue to pay the present Rs 7.5 per unit or even more as per the decision of the electricity regulatory authority in its new tariff order”.
Dr Cheema said “Chief Minister Capt Amarinder had made an announcement to this effect in the Vidhan Sabha in June this year. Following this, the industrial sector even welcomed the decision. Now we have come to know that this decision will not be implemented this year as the same has not been communicated to the PSERC”.
“The government is yet to waive off the Rs 90,000 crore farm loan as promised. Now we have a situation in which an another announcement made in the Vidhan Sabha to supply power at Rs five per unit to new and existing industrial units is not being implemented”.
The Akali leader said the manner in which the Congress government was behaving with the industrial sector was shameful. “The government is asking the industry to hire more youth and even signing MOUs with them besides encouraging them to attend so called Rozgar Melas held under its aegis. But on the same hand the government is not ready to make the industrial sector profitable by extending the promised facility to it”, he added.
-PTC News
