Kathmandu, July 20
Minister for Energy, Water Resources and
Irrigation Pampha Bhusal said that her Ministry wanted to conduct a study about
charging less tariff to those industries consuming high amount of power.
“There should be
a provision to charge less to the industry that consumes high amount of
electricity,” she told a delegation of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) led by Shekhar Gokchha at her Office on Monday
and assured that the government would conduct a study about the feasibility of
the proposal.
She also said
that the Ministry would take an appropriate decision about trunk line and
dedicated feeder line to the industries.
There is a row
between the private sector industries and Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA),
the state run energy monopoly, in terms of the amount of the tariff of the
trunk and dedicated electricity supply.
“Although the
businesses have been paying their dues as per the rules and laws, the NEA had mentioned
millions of additional charges in the name of unpaid energy fee,” said the
delegation.
The dispute
between the industries and NEA has run for many years since Electricity Tariff
Fixation Commission took decision about it some five-and-a-half years ago.
Private sector
businesses have been demanding not to apply the special charges for dedicated
and trunk line after mid-May 2018 as the provisions were implemented for the
load-shedding period.
The FNCCI said
that it wanted the Energy Minister to issue directives in the name of the NEA
not to collect the special tariff after that date.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 21 July 2021.
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