Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
C
hief Minister Responds to Industrialists plea- Agrees to look into their demands.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said that it is a wrong opinion that the Griha jyothi scheme’s burden is put on anyone.
He was speaking to the delegation led by BV
Gopal Reddy,president of the Karnataka Federation of Commerce and Industry who met him today.
Our government has not taken any decision on increasing electricity charges.KERC
had decided to increase the charges before our government came to power, he said.
The Chief Minister assured that a separate meeting will be held with Finance,Energy Department,Kasia,FKCCI to discuss the demands submitted by the delegation.
KERC has increased the electricity charges on the industrial sector in its tariff
order.
The delegation had appealed to reduce electricity tax to 3% from 9% which is levied on small and medium industries and HT industries.
It also requested to give discount on fuel escalation charges and also to form MSME policy and legislation which is already in force in other states.
Energy Minister,K.J George,Chief Minister’s Political Secretaries Govindaraju,Naseer Ahmed,Additional Chief Secretary Gaurav Gupta,FKCCI office bearers Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, M.G Balakrishna, Dr. Prasad, B.T. Manohar was present.
