category Regional, patiala, , tags Regional, patiala, , DW BUREAU PATIALA Electricity Amendment Bill 2022, Standard bidding document and all electricity rules being issued by the ministry of power are meant only for the privatization of the power sector and will lead to costly power for the common consumers, said Shailendra Dubey Chairman All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) . The All-India convention of power consumers is being held in Bhopal and was inaugurated today by Shailendra Dubey through Video Conferencing. The consumers representatives of 17 states are participating in the two day convention. President of All India Electricity consumer association Sapan Kumar Ghosh presided over the inaugural function. VK Gupta, spokesperson of the AIPEF, informed that Dubey in his address said the electricity amendment bill is a document for complete privatization of the power sector. The Bill aims to give players power to supply power by using the infrastructure of state Discoms developed at the cost of taxpayers. The infrastructure required for the capacity addition and its modernisation will be the responsibility of state Discoms. There will be two types of consumers, one who are getting subsidies and other consumers with commercial and industrial consumers. The first type of consumers will become liability of state Discoms by default the private companies will be resorting to cherry picking. It will be the supplier s choice and not the consumer s choice as claimed by the government. The bill also proposes that a cost effective tariff will be the rule of day. As a major component up to 80 percent of tariff is power purchase cost and thus domestic power tariff may increase up to Rs. 7 per unit. In case of two private companies in Mumbai the domestic tariff slab goes up to Rs.14 to 16 per unit. The same will be the fate of domestic consumers after privatisation of the power sector as private companies are coming not for charity but for guaranteed profits. (editor dailyworld.in)