Karunanidhi counters Jayalalithaa on power crisis
By PTI - CHENNAI
27th October 2012 08:07 PM
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Jaya would be better off taking steps to address people's issues rather than blame others, said Karunanidhi. (PTI file photo)
Hitting back at his archrival and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for accusing his previous government of doing little on power generation, DMK President M Karunanidhi today detailed the various efforts taken by his party in this regard.
In a letter to partymen here, Karunanidhi also said Jayalalithaa would be better off taking steps to address people's issues rather than blame others.
Refuting her remarks that his government from 2006-11 did little towards power generation, he listed out the various projects taken up during that time including 600 mw each thermal power projects at Mettur and Ennore and another 800 mw power project at Udankudi among others.
Some of these were scheduled to go on steam in the coming months and he wondered whether these were not been taken up when he was Chief Minister.
He slammed Jayalalithaa for accusing DMK and Congress ministers with not taking up with the Centre the issue of additional power allocation to the state besides the transmission corridor congestion and asked how many times as Chief Minister had she met the Prime Minister to discuss these matters.
Need for corridor did not arise during his government as there was no power shortage like today, he said adding if she was aware of such a problem why did she ink an agreement with Gujarat for purchase of 500 mw of power when the state could realise only 235 mw.
"People have taken to the streets following 16 hours of power cut which is atrocious. Many manufacturing units have been closed down affecting scores of workers. So the ruling AIADMK should focus on addressing people's issues rather than make useless charges against others. People won't buy that for long," he warned.
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Comments(6)
Power is a problem in TN. But who is responsible for the problem? It is MK. What steps he took as CM to solve the problem? How many times he explained to the people the causes for the problem? Atleast JJ has appeared on TV twice and explained the reasons and assured that the power problem in TN will end in 2013 end. If she do not keep up her words, electrotate will teach her a lesson. Until then let MK keep mum on the issue or atleast urge the Centre to improve the transmission corridor to enable TN to transmit the power purchased from other States, because he is part of UPA Govt. and owes TN the responsibility of pressuring Centre for the same.
Posted by C.Baby at 10/27/2012 20:39 Reply to this Report abuse
TOI has already put an apolitical news analysis, about a week ago, on how TN lost the (electric) power race: From 2001 to 2012, no new power generation. TN is currently producing only 62% of the power it needs. Both MK and Jaya are fooling people by accusing each other for the power crisis. The question is what TN people are going to do to get rid of both of them (and their parties); or are they even intelligent enough to get rid of them?
Posted by Shekhar at 10/27/2012 22:24 Reply to this Report abuse
What else an idle man , with all family quarrels taking his time , can do . He can only bark
Posted by N.S.Srinivasan at 10/29/2012 07:04 Reply to this Report abuse
Any project starts with 1 An MOU- which indicates the intention 2. A DPR or Detailed Project study 3. Funding pattern , which can take time to identify how much will be from State/ Centre/ Institutions, Financial agencies& Banks 4. Project execution proper, where not only delivery of machinery is tied up firmly along with the dates of deliveries (firm schedule)+ embedded penalty clauses but also coordination of various Agencies; it also implies all financing arrangements have been made to enable smooth flow of money and the project is completed within time-frame. 5. Post construction activities such as, testing, dry and trial runs etc. 6. Commissioning for use. This is a concise road-map, in general. What our Govts. do is a tricky thing! Lay a foundation-stone! Go on repeating it was our project; and that foundation- stone too will be saying same story! One need not bother about all other enumerated steps here! That is actually THE difference between politics and project engineering!
Posted by KANNAN at 10/29/2012 08:32 Reply to this Report abuse
If TN could not buy power from Gujarat, due to 'the transmission corridor congestion' , why not divert other states quota power from Neyveli & Kalpakkam to TN which can agree to divert the purchased power from Gujarat to compensate it. Strange that the central govt cites 'the transmission corridor congestion' without finding a solution in this age of technology. The center , probably under the inducement of DMK, plays a game against TN govt with an eye on ensuing parliamentary elections to ensure the defeat of AIADMK.
Posted by Gandhi at 10/29/2012 09:48 Reply to this Report abuse
where is the like button :) absolutely true sir, if the leaders really want to see a solution for this problem, they can work it out easily. your idea on NLC and KPKM is good and realistic one... Hope someone is listening...
Posted by RAJAGOPAL at 10/29/2012 12:14 Reply to this Report abuse