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UP under CM Yogi has kept electricity tariffs unchanged for the 7th year in a row: Read how that has been achieved

In practice, this is the difference between the cost of supply rate and the rate a household actually pays. A rural lifeline consumer using up to 100 units a month effectively pays around 3.00 per unit after subsidy, even though the underlying cost of that power is much higher. The state government is absorbing the gap for now, not the consumers.