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The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) would soon array a achromatic paper, said Minister for Energy Resources and Law C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar successful Madurai connected Sunday.
Interacting with journalists, helium blamed the erstwhile Electricity Minister Senthilbalaji for having “ruined the TANGEDCO”.
According to Mr. Kumar, determination was corruption everywhere. Malpractice, maladministration and mismanagement pulled the section to the bottom.
Be it connected floating tenders, oregon acquisition of transformers oregon sanctioning licences for caller applicants seeking to participate renewable assemblage and among others, corruption and favouritism was there. Mr. Senthilbalaji had neglected rules. In galore situations, helium had bent the regularisation to oblige a prime radical of people, Mr. Kumar alleged.
Tamil Nadu, which was erstwhile connected the top, stood astatine the bottommost arsenic acold arsenic renewable vigor assemblage was concerned, helium said and charged it was owed to the precocious corruption by those successful powerfulness then. Instead of encouraging entrepreneurs to acceptable up units, the DMK authorities was keen lone connected making wealth and keeping a fewer beneficiaries happy.
Thus, genuine concern groups silently relocated to different States, helium claimed.
“For each megawatt, Mr. Senthilbalaji had demanded ₹25 lakh arsenic committee from the applicants done his loyalists,” helium alleged and added some the High Court and the CBI constabulary were intimately monitoring the charges.
Assuring the caller authorities would stay transparent, helium said the tender process and different procedures would beryllium carried retired arsenic per law. Very soon, the authorities would archer the radical connected however overmuch wealth they would beryllium redeeming owed to a consecutive guardant administration.
Asked astir recruitment successful the TANGEDCO, helium said erstwhile determination were astir 70,000 vacancies successful the TANGEDCO, wherefore did the authorities stay soundless and wherefore did they not instrumentality steps to enlistee successful the past.
“We are present assessing the unit request and soon, the process would commencement successful a escaped and just mode for recruitment.”
He said successful the past 4 weeks alone, a fig of argumentation decisions connected the TANGEDCO’s procedures person been changed.
“We volition archer the public. They request not wage a azygous rupee arsenic chopped oregon enactment money for getting licence oregon for enhancement of powerfulness for their existing units et al. There volition beryllium nary middlemen. No brokers,” helium assured.
Commenting connected the predominant powerfulness outages successful Chennai, Mr. Kumar attributed it to mediocre infrastructure. What was provided astir a decennary ago, has continued.
The governments successful the past had not established immoderate caller sub-station oregon installed oregon enhanced the existing transformers.
For a metropolis similar Madurai, successful the contiguous request for power, six sub-stations were required to beryllium installed and hence, for the State superior (Chennai), the fig of SS should person been expanded rapidly successful proportionate to the colonisation and the load request of electricity, helium said.
He said if TANGEDCO was bad, it was worse successful solar/wind vigor arsenic the full assemblage was functioning nether a lobby, masterminded by Mr. Senthilbalaji, helium said and added that the caller authorities had streamlined them.
He besides charged the erstwhile Electricity Minister Sivasankaran arsenic being conscionable a ‘rubber stamp’ and the full TANGEDCO was remotely operated by Mr. Senthilbalaji, his member Ashok and a fewer others.
