Several commercial and residential customers of Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) in Mumbai are planning to shift their electricity connections to Tata Power Company (TPC).
Around 4,000 restaurants in Mumbai and its suburbs say the shift to TPC would work out to be over 50 per cent cheaper for them. The restaurants which have sought a change of supply include fine dining and mid-size restaurants and fall under R-Infra and TPC's licence areas.
"We have written to both the companies and the regulatory board Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) for a shift from R-Infra to Tata Power. It would be around 50 per cent cheaper for us," says Chandrahas Shetty, president of a restaurants' association in Mumbai.
R-Infra's licence area spreads from Sion to Kanjurmarg in Central suburbs and from Mahim to Mira-Bhayander in the western suburbs of Mumbai. TPC's licence area overlaps with that of R-Infra.
R-Infra's consumer base is largely residential, forming around 85 per cent of its customer base, with commercial users comprising 14 per cent.
"TPC states that it will be able to supply power to those existing consumers of R-Infra who wish to receive power from TPC. For effecting supply, TPC would use the existing distribution system of R-Infra," MERC stated in a recent interim order given on a petition filed by TPC. The company had sought approval for operating procedures for supplying power to consumers in the common licence area of R-Infra using each other's existing distribution network.
The Bengali's have been completely brain-washed by Didi. They fail to realise that the TATA's are among the most ethically run companies in India. Maybe they will realise that after the mess they get into when Didi comes to power. As it is she has made friends with the devil (the maoists) to oust the CPM and will have to pay dearly when they ask for their pound of flesh.
Bhattacharya
TATAS prove to be a killer of all other companies with their arrogant competitive approach aiming to intrude into others territory thru cheap offer. We saw recently the launch of TATA NANO which is a failure now. Poor people who bought the much awaited cheap NANA car came to know the incidents occured to NANA Cars in many places in India. More than three NANA Cars caught fire with electric circuit proble. People who go for cheap will end in great tragedy like this. TATA came out with Telephone DoComo per/sec to crash Bharti Airtel. TATAS cannot compete with Bharti even though Tatas reduce tarrifs to half because Bharti is deep rooted and cannot be removed from people's mind. TATAS are a failure with wrong acquision in Europe and end in deep red. TATA Steel is 49% down in their Sept results now. TATA Power will also end in big loss provided they do same cheap offer approach. People who opt for the cheap offer will know one day a big tragedy behind them.