All India power Engineers Federation ( AIPEF ) has requested Union Power Minister to reallocate power from Central sector power stations in Northern Region so that no power utility is allowed to earn money regularly through surrendering of surplus power.
AIPEF in a letter to Union Power Minister has claimed that except Delhi , all power utilities of northern India are paying heavy penalty in lieu of unscheduled interchange (UI ) charges due to shortage of power in their states. Amazingly Delhi DISCOMS are earning huge money through UI by surrendering surplus power.
As per official record during the financial year Delhi DISCOMS have earned Rs.764.41 crore through UI and all other states particularly Punjab Haryana, UP, & Rajasthan have paid heavy penalty. For UI drawl during 2010-11, Haryana has paid Rs.1133.72 crore UP has paid Rs.897.62 crore , Rajasthan Rs.880.37 crore and Punjab Rs.521.03 crore. Even small state like Uttarakhand has paid Rs.176.89 crore on account of UI charges.
Last year Punjab over drew 9252 lakh units power from grid at average rate of Rs.5.63 per unit. Similarly Shaliender dubey alleged that this is because all these states are short of Power and Delhi has been allocated with surplus Power as per their requirement.
Official data shows that Delhi was surplus of 24698 Lac Units of electricity during the financial year 2010-11, while Haryana overdrew 32325 Lac Units, Rajasthan Overdrew 25682 Lac Units, UP overdrew 15283 Lac Units and Punjab overdrew 9252 Lac Units because of shortage electricity in these states. The average per unit cost for Punjab was Rs. 5.63, for Haryana Rs.3.51 and for UP it was Rs.5.87 per unit.
It is worthwhile to mention that about 5000 MW additional Power was allocated to Delhi in the name of Common Wealth Games. Even 2500 MW Power has been allocated from DVC which is far away from Delhi . A study of daily basis UI drawl of Delhi during Common Wealth Games shows Delhi was surplus with Power and DISCOMS minted money by surrendering surplus power.
In October itself DISCOMS earned Rs.55.84 crore by surrendering surplus power. Delhi was also allocated Power from Jhajjar and Dadri Plant also in the name of CWG. It is high time to review the matter and power allocations as per set formula and not give undue benefits to big private industrial houses.
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