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The Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (TNPDCL) volition present entree power protocols arsenic portion of information enhancement measures astatine its captious installations.
According to authoritative sources, biometric authentication would soon beryllium introduced to place and grounds the entry/exit details of unit and visitors to the integer platforms and information retention centres.
The access-control initiatives travel the theft of 18 hard disks from the TNPDCL office present recently. Investigators who zeroed-in connected the premier suspect, Gopinath - the Annual Maintenance Contract work supplier of Arakkonam - and his accomplice Manohar of Bengaluru, they recovered 34 hard disks, each allegedly stolen from TNPSCL, the sources said.
It was not wide whether the fig of hard disks stolen from the organisation is 34 oregon adjacent much than that. However, erased data, which was retrieved by the constabulary truthful acold did not uncover thing incriminating, the sources said.
Holiday restrictions
Since the theft of hard disks took spot connected a holiday, the sources said steps were taken to debar introduction of contractual unit oregon visitors to information centres connected weekends and different holidays unless an exigency arose.
State Minister for Energy Resources R. Nirmalkumar reviewed the developments with the Chairman and Managing Director, TANGEDCO, J. Radhakrishnan and different elder officials connected Monday evening, the sources said.
While the CB-CID is probing the theft case, the TNPDCL has ordered an interior enquiry into the incidental and officers were besides reviewing the information extortion policy.
Parrying questions connected the quality of information retrieved from the 34 hard disks recovered from the accused persons and the sources said it was not wide wherefore ailment was not lodged successful transportation with the theft of hard disks connected earlier occasions.
