Responding to the demands from the public, especially the poor and the middle class, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced a partial rollback of the power tariff hike. It is a move that is expected to grant a big relief to middle class households from the steep hike in their bi-monthly electricity bills.
Reading out a suo motu statement in the Assembly, even as the DMK, DMDK and CPI(M) staged a walk-out after being refused permission to raise the tariff hike issue, Ms. Jayalalithaa said the government had no authority to reduce the tariff fixed by the Tamil Nadu Energy Regulatory Commission (TNERC),