CM blames UPA for power cuts
Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday promised to solve power crisis in a year and said Tamil Nadu would become a power-surplus state.
Blaming the DMK and Congress for the power crisis, she said their governments at the state and the Centre had messed it up but they were now accusing her government of failure on this front.
In her address to people on Jaya TV, Ms Jayalalithaa said new power projects would start full-fledged generation from November. “The power situation in the state will gradually improve and it can be seen by the end of
November itself,” she assured.
“This will be done with people’s support and by God’s grace despite Centre deserting the state,’’ she added.
The chief minister said the previous Karunanidhi-led government had failed to have a progressive vision on power generation and added only 206 MW to the installed capacity during 2006-11. “When I demitted the office in 2006, the installed capacity in the state was 10,100 MW. During my last tenure, about 2,518 MW generation capacity was added,” she said.
She accused the DMK and Congress of doing nothing to help Tamil Nadu on the power crisis.
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