Power tariff for domestic consumers in Delhi was Tuesday hiked by a steep 26 percent–the fourth increase in ten months–in a shock to people already burdened by high inflation and petrol price rise.
The new rates would be effective from July 1.
The actual hike for domestic consumers is 24.15 percent but an additional eight percent surcharge that would be levied on the overall bill would effectively take the increase to 26 per cent, Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) Chairman P D Sudhakar said.
The average hike would be 20.87 percent if the commercial and industrial sector are also taken into account.
The domestic consumers will be the hardest hit as tariff for the segment has been hiked the most compared to commercial and industrial categories.
The regulator in August last year had hiked the tariff by 22 percent hike for all categories of consumers. The tariff was hiked by five percent in February and by upto two per cent in May to adjust the power purchase cost of the distribution companies.
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