Chandigarh, July 16 -- Five months after taking over the UT electricity department, Chandigarh Power Distribution Limited (CPDL) has submitted a petition to the joint electricity regulatory commission (JERC), seeking a hike in electricity tariffs for the financial year 2025-26 under the multi-year tariff (MYT) framework.

The JERC will fix the tariff for the private sector operator, as is being done for the government department, and will hold a public hearing on July 25, at the Art and Museum Gallery Hall, Sector 10, before revising the tariff.

The power supply operations in the city were officially handed over to CPDL, a private entity, by the UT administration on February 1, 2025. The tariff hike proposal is the first such move by the...