Chandigarh, Aug. 8 -- Former Haryana finance minister Sampat Singh on Friday accused Haryana's power distribution companies of attempting to shift the burden of their financial mismanagement onto consumers, saying the conclusion of hearings before the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) would not end the battle to protect the state's 84 lakh electricity consumers.

At a briefing, the INLD leader alleged that the power utilities were seeking to recover about Rs.1,134 crore from consumers by relaxing provisions of the HERC Multi-Year Tariff (MYT) Regulations, 2024. Singh said the distribution companies have sought HERC's approval to exempt them from levying a monthly fuel surcharge adjustment (FSA) of 47 paise per unit during 2...