KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has asked the CESC to submit a report on its move to mop up enhanced security deposits from the consumers.
KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has asked the CESC to submit a report on its move to mop up enhanced security deposits from the consumers, said state power minister Mrinal Banerjee in the Assembly lobby on Tuesday after the debate on his departmental budget.
“We have received complaints from both industrial and domestic consumers against CESC on the new scheme of security deposits.
I have asked the power secretary to enquire into it,� he added.
Trinamul Congress MLA Saugata Roy wanted to know whether the company had taken prior permission from the government before asking the consumer to deposit a minimum security amount equivalent of an average bill of three months.
Banerjee, however, said that he had received no “directive� from chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to be a party to the special leave petition filed by the State Electricity Regulatory Commission in the Supreme Court against the high court order overruling the SERC and allowing a hike in tariff almost to the tune of what the CESC had originally asked for.
Opposition members including Roy, Arunabha Ghosh and Debaprasad Sarkar criticised the recent power tariff increase. Sarkar staged a walk-out while Trinamul MLA Sonali Guha and some colleagues caused a ruckus by hanging two lanterns from the light stand in front of the Speaker’s podium.
