New Delhi, July 31: Power tariff in the national capital is likely to go down by 2007 with improvement in power supply in the last one year, a PHDCCI statement said on Wednesday, quoting a top Delhi government official. With power distribution in Delhi going through a transitional phase due to its privatisation some positive results could be expected in terms of reduction in power tariff by the end of 2007, Principal Secretary (power), Government of NCT of Delhi, Jagdish Sagarm said at an interactive meeting on 'A year of privatisation of power distribution' organised by PHDCCI.

Sagar said power supply has improved in the last year bringing down the loss in supply to 1.39 per cent in April-July this year from 3.06 per cent during the same months in 2001.
He said the distribution companies would have to achieve their loss reduction targets or else it would result in net losses of upto Rs 80 crore, the PHDCCI release said.
Chief Executive of BSES Yamuna Power Ltd and BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd Himadri Banerji said the companies had brought in systems improvement to reduce cost by 20 per cent and improve quality by 30-40 per cent. Bureau Report