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Minister for Energy Resources and Law R. Nirmalkumar said connected Saturday that the caller powerfulness cuts, which occurred successful immoderate parts of Chennai and different districts, were owed to load issues, and the Electricity Department had been taking punctual measures to code them.
Speaking to reporters, helium said determination was nary shortage of powerfulness supply, and determination had been a abrupt highest successful powerfulness request during the summer. He besides said the section is reeling nether terrible fiscal distress and reforms are being implemented successful the Electricity Department, which mightiness instrumentality a fewer months.
Mr. Nirmalkumar said the Electricity Department had constituted 7 accelerated effect teams of engineers successful Chennai, and they had been provided vehicles to swiftly scope spots and rectify complaints. He said officials had been instructed to inspect substations to find and rectify immoderate method issues immediately.
Call centres person been activated with a spot of 300 employees, and complaints are being received circular the timepiece and forwarded to the respective teams for punctual redressal. There were respective aged transformers and cablegram networks that needed to beryllium replaced.
Mr. Nirmalkumar besides said that successful immoderate places, the powerfulness cuts were caused by definite individuals, and enactment would beryllium taken against them. He said implicit the past 20 years, the Electricity Department has been reeling nether terrible fiscal distress with outstanding indebtedness to the tune of ₹2.5 lakh crore. “Of the full sanctioned spot of 1.4 lakh, the Electricity Department has been functioning with lone 70,000 employees,” helium said.
He said Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay is intimately pursuing developments successful the Electricity Department. Further, helium said measures were being taken to streamline the processing of applications, support procedures, and the installation of star panels. Several crores worthy of tenders had been cancelled and revalidated to code administrative discrepancies.
