Sudden police action leaves traders, shoppers high and dry
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The decision of the administration to close down all commercial establishments and trading units except those selling essential commodities and providing services such as hospitals and pharmacies left people high and dry in Kalaburagi on Thursday.
Police vehicles began patrolling the city at 4 p.m., blowing sirens and asking traders through loudspeakers to close their shops. In some places, including Super Market, Kapada Bazaar and Kirana Bazaar, police teams forcibly got the shops closed leaving traders as well as customers in shock. Police action created chaos in many places and left people, especially those who had arrived from villages, stranded in the city.
Users oppose GESCOM’s power tariff revision proposal
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It wants to hike tariff by ₹1.56 a unit for all category of consumers
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It wants to hike tariff by ₹1.56 a unit for all category of consumers
A proposal by THE Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company Limited (GESCOM) to the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) for increasing power tariff by 156 paisa a unit for all category of consumers was strongly opposed.
In a consultative meeting of power users convened by KERC at the district administrative complex here on Thursday, almost all consumers appealed to KERC to reject the proposal.
In his presentation on the tariff revision proposal, Rahul Pandve, Managing Director of GESCOM, put the projected revenue deficit of ₹1,196.89 crore, which included the pending deficit of ₹982.29 crore and the projected deficit of ₹214.60 crore for 2021-22, and appealed to the commission to allow the hike .