The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) will now be able to carry out a ‘reasonable’ upward revision of tariff in order to ‘find a way out of a financial crisis.’
The State advisory committee appointed by the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) has unanimously made a recommendation to this effect.
Earlier, the KSEB had submitted a tariff petition explaining the crisis confronting it, and had mentioned that it had not revised tariff during the past 10 years.
The meeting of the committee members, chaired by Mr K. J. Mathew, chairman, KSERC, gave its approval to the KSEB to go ahead with a tariff revision plan.
The regulatory commission will hold public hearings on the tariff petition next week in Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, and Kozhikode.