Hyderabad: There has been no increase in power tariff in the proposals for 2017-18 submitted by TSDiscoms to the TS Electricity Regulatory Commission on Thursday.
However, the proposal did not reveal how the Discoms hope to fill the revenue gap, which they estimated to be about Rs 8,000 crore in 2017-18.
TSSPDCL CMD G. Raghuma Reddy handed over the tariff proposals to the ERC.
The state government has announced Rs 3,500 crore in the Budget for power subsidy, meaning that the Discoms will have to generate about '4,500 crore to fill the revenue gap.
Discoms proposed removal of restrictions on the number of connections and acreage for dry land and wet land farmers, excluding corporate farmers for availing free power supply. It was also proposed to extend free supply power to cultivation in polyhouses and greenhouses.
