BANGKOK, April 21 (TNA) – Some 20 million households in
Thailand will benefit from electricity bill subsidy that was approved by the
Cabinet on Tuesday.
The proposal to give free use of electricity and deductions
of bills is a top agenda of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and will take
effect retroactively from March when the COVID-19 stay-at-home measure was
introduced.
About 10 million small households that use electricity not
more than 150 units per month will not have to pay their bills from March to
May.
Larger households using more than 150 units of electricity
will get 30 percent, 50 percent or 100 percent deductions depending on their
usages. The deductions for the
three-month period are calculated from the number of units in excess of what they
used in February, before the lockdown order was in place. (TNA)