The rich pay less for power in our country..

So in order to be uniformed, let's say 50%, it would be: 0- 50 1.45 51-100 2.90 101-200 5.80 201-300 11.60 301-500 23.20 501- 46.40 It is just impossible. Perhaps they could adjust the rate a bit up and down but there is no way that it could be standardized in percentage terms. I feel that the logic of the pricing is based on 2.80-3.05 as the actual chargeable rates which the majority of normal customers would consume with normal usage. The lowest rate is a subsidy for the low usage customers who may be mostly poor families. The rates from 4.75-6.00 are for commercial customers. Note that all customers do enjoy the subsidy rate of 1.45 for the initial 50 units usage.

Hi, Vandy, the rich should become richer and the poor become poorer. The middle class should die as middle class-this is the Indian democracy... BTW I thought you don't belong to middle and lower... do you really?

i do not see it that way. what is clear to me is that big consumers pay the highest per unit in consumption. it is not about the differences between categories. the more one consumes, the higher one pays. there is no subsidy for the big consumers, but there is a subsidy for small consumers.

Hi Vandana My late grandfather who was a visionary much ahead of his times, used to say - The Middle Class is the one which will have to suffer and the misery of this class is that it can neither go to the top nor to the bottom. It has always been this way in Independent India. And I guess, it is economics and politics too. And unfortunately there is no respite as long as we do keep voting to people who are "democratic" and think only about their welfare. On the lighter sides though - the government wants most of Indians to become either Politicians, or Gangsters or even Rich Businessmen - so that India gets known as a Developed nation

Vandanaji We the middle class are the worst sufferers, we can neither become politicians, gangsters, and we are not that rich, here in orissa they declared hike but it was withdrawn, don't know why, in my house they replaced the made in Germany meters fitted in 1957; with Chinese meters supplied by them, it runs like cheeta; i challanged them, switched off all appliances except 10 one hundred watt bulbs, after 2 hours it should consume 2 kilowatt hours; but the meter showed 4.5 units, this was done in presense of the Je, but he says, meter is ok!!!!!!

i dont know what country power you talking, in our country her rich pay less power too, and here the from 1 to 100 - about 4 rupees and 100 to 200 about 7.50 per unit.

Most electric bills are figured on the cost to produce the power. If your local plant can produce enough power for the average user to use 350 units and if they exceed that rate then they (the Power Co) has to go out and find power on the open market it gets more expensive. This works until you start to buy in a larger volume and you can get a cheaper rate thus your cost do not increase as much. In my community in the US we have a local plant. It can produce the power needed for the community by using two gas fired generators. IF it needs more power it can buy it on the open market but it cost a lot more. Once they hit a certain point in power use it is more economical to fire up the third generator which is run by oil, more expensive than gas but cheaper than buying it on the open market. When do they use the third generator is when demand is going to be high for an extended period of time. The power is not priced based on income but on usage which you can control to some extent.

Now there had to be some upper limit after which a single slab is applied. They can't go on and on!! The class structure starts from lower one, and exists up to upper middle class only. And as you see they are 'hit'. So as long as we limit our frame there is no scope for complain. Now, for those above upper middle class, they are not children and don't have to stick to the class. They have the power and the influence - to lobby, to threaten and coolest of all, to make rules for themselves and us! If you already have a home, you don't need to purchase one. Similarly, if you already have 'the power', why would you pay for it?

In every economy the rich seem to thrive more than the poor and everything seems to be cheaper for the rich than the rest of the people. I however think that it has got something to do with economies of scale where you get a major discount when you spend more. In my country we call it the wholesale price.