CSPDCL (Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Limited) hikes power tariff upto 8.5%, revised tariff applicable for FY 2017-18

Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Limited (CSPDCL) owned by Chhattisgarh State Government makes a revision in the power tariffs for all Domestic & Non-Domestic consumers of Chhattisgarh.
The revised tariffs will be applicable for the new financial year (2017-2018) and the consumers will be charged accordingly from April’17 month onwards.

The power tariff has been increased upto 8.5%. Earlier the Fixed Charges (Rupees per kWh for LV Domestic including BPL Consumers) for 0-40 units slab was charged at the rate of ₹ 2.35/kWh, which has been revised to ₹ 2.55/kWh. Similarly for 41-200 units slab rates has been hiked from ₹ 2.40/kWh to ₹ 2.60/kWh, 201-600 units slab rates revised from ₹ 3.20/kWh to ₹ 3.40/kWh, and for 601 and above units slab rates also got revised from ₹ 4.75/kWh to ₹ 4.90/kWh.

There is also a small increase in Energy Charge (Rs. Per kWh) for all consumers. You can compare the revised rates below.

LV-1: Domestic applicability

This tariff is applicable to domestic light and fan and power used for all domestic appliances, in residential premises, orphanages, homes for old/physically challenged people and homes for destitute; dharamshalas; student hostels; working women’s hostels; ashrams; schools and hospitals (including X-rays, etc.) run by charitable trusts; Government hospitals/dispensaries, (excluding private clinics and nursing homes); Government Schools; farm houses; mosques; temples; churches, gurudwaras; religious and spiritual institutions; water works and street lights in private colonies and cooperative societies; common facilities such as lighting in staircase, lifts, firefighting in multi-storied housing complex, light and fan in khalihan, kothar, byra where agriculture produce is kept, post office at residence of a villager; residential premises of professionals such as advocates, doctors, artists, consultants, weavers, bidi makers, beauticians, stitching and embroidery workers including their chambers; public toilets; fractional HP motors used for Shailchak by Kumhars in their residences; zero waste centre compost unit.

Notes:

1. Only those domestic consumers who hold BPL Card issued by the State Government will be considered as BPL domestic consumer. BPL Card holders shall be entitled for subsidy for 40 units as per State Government Order, and their consumption shall be billed as per tariff LV-1.
2. All BPL domestic categories of consumers shall be billed as per meter reading. All the new BPL domestic connections shall be served with meter only.
3. If a portion of the dwelling is used for the conduct of any business other than those stipulated above, the entire consumption shall be billed under Non-domestic tariff LV-2.

LV-2: Non-Domestic applicability

This tariff is applicable to light and fan and power to shops, showrooms, business houses, offices, educational institutions (except those included in LV-1 and LV-5), public buildings, Warehouses, town halls, clubs, gymnasium and health clubs, meeting halls, places of public entertainment, circus, hotels, cinemas, railway stations, private clinics and nursing homes including X-rays plant, diagnostic centres, pathological labs, carpenters and furniture makers, juice centres, hoardings and advertisement services, public libraries and reading rooms, typing institutes, internet cafes, STD/ISD PCO’s, Mobile Towers, Coaching centres, FAX/photocopy shops, tailoring shops, photographers and colour labs, laundries, cycle shops, compressors for filling air, toy making industry, nickel plating on small scale, restaurants, eating establishments, Government circuit houses/rest houses, guest houses, marriage gardens, farmhouses being used for commercial purposes, book binders, offset printers, bakery shop, banks, parlours, printing press, computer centre, petrol pumps and service stations, HV industrial consumers seeking separate independent LV connection in the same premises of HV industrial connection and other consumers not covered under any other category of LV consumers.

Note:

1. Fixed charges for LV-2.1 are non-telescopic. For example, if connected load is 5 kW then monthly fixed charges shall be Rs. 625 per month; The tariff LV-2.2 will be optional.
2. Fixed Charges of LV-2.1 and Demand Charge on contract demand of tariff LV-2.2 is a monthly minimum charge, whether any energy is consumed during the month or not.

LV-3: L.V. Agriculture Tariff:

LV- 4: L.V. Agriculture Allied Activities

Applicability
This tariff is applicable to pump/tube well connections, other equipment and light and fan for tree plantation, fisheries, hatcheries, poultry farms, dairy, cattle breeding farms, sericulture, tissue culture, aquaculture laboratories, and milk chilling plant.