The Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in Tamil Nadu that are protesting against increase in electricity charges plan to organise the next protest on October 4.
The Tamil Nadu Industrial Electricity Consumers Association has said in a press release that at a meeting held in Chennai on September 29, the MSME associations placed four demands - withdrawal of the hike in fixed charges, exemption from peak hour charges, removal of costs for rooftop solar energy generation, charging MSMEs with less than 12 KW under tariff III A (1) instead of III B, and suspension of annual hike in electricity charges for two years.
“The government has agreed only to the demand related to tariff LT III A1 and has said that other demands cannot be met. Hence, the MSME associations will hold the next protest on October 4,” the press release said.
