Tuesday, 20 March 2012

TSR asks Centre to release 500 MW for Vizag industries

Rajya Sabha member T. Subbarami Reddy has appealed to Union Minister for Power Sushil Kumar Shinde to ask Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to consider releasing 500 MW for Visakhapatnam region to overcome power crisis faced by local industries.
In a letter to Mr. Shinde, Mr. Reddy, who is the chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Forest and Environment, said the imposition of power holiday and long hours of power cuts were forcing several small scale units and major industries to curtail their production. Even agriculture operation had suffered badly, he stated.
He said 500 MW should be released through APEPDCL so that the industries function normally and contribute to national economy substantially.

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