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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Delhi AAP Govt slashes power tariff by 50 p.c., to provide free water Wednesday Feb 25,2015

 
Keeping its key promise to voters, the Aam Admi Party Govt on Wednesday Feb 25,2015 that it would slash power tariff by 50 % for those households which consume up to 400 units per month

The AAP Govt also decided to provide 20,000 litres of free water to every household

According to the AAP Govt, 36.06 lakh families, that is 90% of domestic power consumers would be provided 50% reduction in electricity bills up to 400 units per month beyond which no subsidy would apply.
Similarly, no subsidy would apply for metered consumers using over 20,000 litres of water per month.



Both subsidies, the government said, would become effective from March 1,2015 and the cost per month would set the exchequer back Rs. 70 crore for power and Rs. 21 crore for water. 

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