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Demand market rate for power after agreeing to a lower rate

SUGAR cooperatives of Maharashtra that have set up power plants that use sugarcane waste as fuel, are trying to wriggle out of their commitment to supply power at lower rates to the state-owned power distribution company, Mahara- shtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (msedcl). Nagpur-based Purti Sugar Mills has moved an appeal before the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity in New Delhi, saying it should be allowed to sell power to any agency it chooses.
The tribunal

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