APDCL to hike power tariff by 8% from 1 April

March 23: The APDCL (Assam Power Distribution Company Limited) has decided to enhance power tariff in Assam will be hiked by 8 percent from 1 April, 2022. The new electricity tariff will be Rs 7.20 per unit instead of the existing Rs 6.61, which means, the consumers will now have to pay 59 paisa more per unit.

The hike was approved following a shortfall in revenue in the current financial year. The Assam Electricity Regulatory Commission (AERC) chairman Kumar Sanjay Krishna stated that the commission has decided an overall increase of around 8 percent in the electricity tariff to cover up the shortfall. Moreover, to ease the burden on the consumers, Assam government has approved an amount of Rs 400 crore as power purchase subsidy to the APDCL after which the net gap required to be recovered through tariff for 2022-23 works out to Rs 546 crore.