Power-starved Karnataka is getting more relief from another BJP-ruled state—Chhattisgarh.
Power-starved Karnataka is getting more relief from another BJP-ruled state—Chhattisgarh.
“Already, we are receiving 200 MW from Chhattisgarh and we are hopeful of receive another 100 MW,” chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda said on Sunday.
Gowda, who met Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh during the recent BJP executive meeting held in Delhi, discussed the grim power situation in Karnataka and ways to speed up construction of the 1,200-MW thermal power plant the two states are executing jointly.
Singh agreed to supply 200 MW, which has started flowing to Karnataka.
The state is facing a 1,500-MW power deficit mainly due to stoppage of supply of coal from Singareni Coal fields and Nagpur, due to the Telangana agitation.
“Chhattisgarh is ready to supply 100 MW more and we are expecting it to start within a day or two,” said Gowda, speaking to the media on the sidelines of a function to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti.
Meanwhile, Union labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge blamed the state government for the present power crisis.
Taking serious exception to energy minister Shobha Karandlaje’s statement accusing the Centre of discriminating against Karnataka in supplying its entitled 1,500 MW of power from the central grid, Kharge said: “The BJP is blaming the Centre to cover up its own failure. Not a single mega watt of generation capacity has been added since the BJP government took charge over three years ago.”
“Instead of blaming the Centre for everything from drought to power crisis, the BJP government should focus on solving the problem by taking up the issue with the ministers concerned at the Centre,” Kharge said.
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