Lesser outages in Chennai justified
By H Sheik Mydeen - MADURAI
07th December 2012 08:42 AM
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has justified the exemption of Chennai from long hours of load shedding, stating that uninterrupted power supply to the capital city is very much essential for the welfare of the entire State.
The corporation stated that it was implementing load-shedding for 8 to 12 hours across the State, except Chennai. Following a direction from the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, P Bagavathiraj, the Chief Engineer of the Commercial Department of TANGEDCO, filed an affidavit on Thursday, stating that the State capital had several establishments such as the Legislative Assembly, High Court, Secretariat and a major chunk of State machineries, including organisations owned and controlled by the State, Consulates, International and National Airports, port, major hospitals and police headquarters. Besides, Chennai also served as a tourism and business hub and as connecting city for national and international tourists visiting other parts of Tamil Nadu.
The authorities stated that long hours of load shedding would cause hardship in Chennai, which had multi-storied domestic and commercial buildings with lifts, besides hospitals. As such, uninterrupted power supply to Chennai was essential for the welfare of the entire State.
Citing Karnataka’s example, they pointed out that Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka, had been totally exempted from load shedding.
Elaborating on the power scarcity the State was experiencing, the power managers said there was a net deficit of about 4,000 mw, during peak hours and day time as well.
Detailing the measures taken to address the crisis, the TANGEDCO official stated that as per the directions of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, a high-level committee comprising nine members met every Monday to review the power position in the State.
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Sir, " Detailing the measures taken to address the crisis, the TANGEDCO official stated that as per the directions of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, a high-level committee comprising nine members met every Monday to review the power position in the State ". What was not 'added' : 'No decisions were arrived at. Until the next 'do nothing' meeting'. That would have been truthful depiction of the state of affairs on the power front !! 4000 MW of power shortage did not happen overnight. Will these 'worthies' of TANGEDCO 'truthfully' tell the people of Tamil Nadu HOW THIS HAPPENED ? Regards
Posted by H.Balakrishnan at 12/07/2012 18:40 Reply to this Report abuse
It is a matter of great concern that previous regimes have swept development of the State under the carpet and left the state in dire straits. Here are a few examples. The private sector power producer situated in Tuticorin had Rs. 650 crores dues when this government took over. It had to shut shop until Government of Tamil Nadu could cough the money after raising the power tariff. Almost every one of the power generating units has had atleast one of the boiler/turbine unit come under service that were due long time ago, thanks to the indiscriminate abuse of past schedules and over runs. All these units that went under service, came about at the same time for the power starved state. Add to that the woes where the current CM had to write to the PM to have the Environment clearance updated for 2006 norms. Why should the CM write and then based on PMO's reminder the Environmental Minister 'wakes up'? Writing is on the wall. It is bad governance of the past that is catching up now
Posted by Natarajan R. at 12/07/2012 21:33 Reply to this Report abuse
Power situation is not bound to improve.Every old house is getting converted to 6 or so flats.Each flat is getting fitted with two ACs and gadgets depending on electricity.Houses in main roads are getting converted to shopping / commercial multi-storeyed.AC is the biggest culprit for power shortage.Two to three ground plots are becoming star hotels with 24 hours service.In this trend and also of arc lamp advertising like Las Vegas I don't think any restoration possible to good old days.I saw saree shops in tnagar keeping their shop doors open for people to get in and out and cool air is coming out up to auto stand where drivers have siesta.Perhaps they know how to make power and power corrupts as well.I thought when people can afford inverter, they can go for solar power with subsidy at 30% by Govt.I am told one fan,2 lights could cost Rs.30000 and with subsidy at 30% , it is Rs.20000 and almost at AC cost.More efficient manufacture and supplies under BIS certification should help!
Posted by b sriram at 12/07/2012 22:23 Reply to this Report abuse