The city witnessed a slew of protests on various issues ranging from rise in price of electricity charges introduced by CESC to agnipath and scrapping of revised textbooks, on Friday.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) flayed the recent hike in power tariff announced by the Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) and said that it was adding to the burden of the commoners.
The party members raised slogans condemning the hike and called for its rollback. The cost per unit of power consumed has been increased at a time when the economy was yet to fully recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and people were suffering from hike in prices of other essential commodities, according to the CPI(M). It said the price per unit has been progressively increased by ₹2.70 per unit between 2009 and 2022. The increase in commercial tariff is affecting the SSI units and will be forced to shut down, cautioned .Jagadish Surya, Secretary, district unit of the CPI(M).
