New Delhi: Union Power Minister Veerappa Moily on Monday came under fire from Congress colleague and former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh for his suggestion to imprison the chief secretaries of states that overdrew power from the power grids.
He said, "I differ with Moily on this issue. I think Moily wants somebody to take the responsibility for all these things. I think it is the government after all... People vote for the government. The Chief Minister is responsible for the whole state. If something goes wrong with the state, how can I say the state chief secretary is responsible for that? Then what is the CM doing there?"
He added, "That's why I think the responsibility should be of the CM. The secretary is working under the CM. The CM gives instructions. That is the way it should go. If the chief secretary is supposed to run the state, then why would you have CM?"
Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Moily had said that he was considering imposing heavy fines and even imprisoning the chief secretaries of states that continued to overdrew power....
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02:36 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Power Minister Veerappa Moily has said that his ministry will take stern steps like heavy fines and even imprisonment to prevent states from overdrawing power from the grids. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the minister gave assurances that the grid collapse that happened on two consecutive days in the end of July will not happen again. Below is an edited transcript of the excerpt from the interview. Karan...
07:56 AM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: Over drawing of electricity by northern states could be one of the reasons for the massive power failure in July that hit half of the country's population, according to the initial findings of a high-level panel appointed by the government to probe the grid collapse. "Western region was under drawing with no reduction in the generation capacities and the northern region was overdrawing resulting in inter-regional grid imbalances,"...
09:55 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Cyrus Broacha also talks about India's performance at London Olympics 2012. ...
11:57 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Commenting on the recent grid collapse, Power Minister Veerappa Moily said that there is no compromise on the power code. ...
07:31 PM, Aug 01, 2012
The power outage on Tuesday had half of the country in dark, here's a family from Delhi talking about how they coped. ...
05:55 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the country faced its worst grid collapse, Union Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily on Wednesday took the additional charge of the Power Ministry. Addressing mediapersons after assuming the office, Moily asserted that he would not allow grid collapse again. "I am confident we will not allow this to happen again. We are keeping vigil," said Moily. Talking about the current situation, Moily said that there...
05:15 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Despite the two-day mayhem across half of India caused by the Northern and Eastern Grid collapse, four northern states and the national capital were overdrawing power from the Northern Grid yet again on Wednesday. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Delhi were overdrawing power from the Northern Grid, the northern regional load dispact centre data showed. Punjab had overdrawn power by 800 MW till 3 pm. The Northern Grid...
03:13 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty-four hours after India's worst power failure, India Inc is counting the cost. Punjab's industrial hub Ludhiana alone has posted a loss of Rs 200-Rs 300 crore. For two consecutive days, as workers sat idle at the industrial units facing blackouts, the units which used power back-up saw their production costs rise, leading to overhead losses. Power from generators cost Rs 14 per unit as against the Rs...
02:01 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Haryana has said that the Centre did not warn the states to draw less power if the output from grids was less. ...
11:52 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Ahmedabad: Massive power failure in Northern and Eastern India over the last two days has given ammunition to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to attack the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre on Tuesday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart on Tuesday took potshots at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the blackout which affected half of India. "With poor economic management, UPA has emptied pockets of common man, kept stomachs...
09:23 AM, Aug 01, 2012
In the worst-ever power crisis, over half of the country's population in 21 states went without electricity for several hours on Tuesday as three major transmission grids failed, bringing Northern, Eastern and Northeastern regions to a grinding halt. For now, power has been restored in the North, East and Northeast and cities are returning to normalcy. ...
09:07 AM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Even as half of India was plunged into darkness after three of its power grids failed on Tuesday afternoon, the government notified the elevation of Sushil Kumar Shinde from Power Ministry to Home Ministry. The move shocked many with the Opposition calling it a "reward for his loyalty to the Gandhi family". BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said that instead of being hauled up for the what was...
08:01 AM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Three electricity grids connecting more than 20 states and the national capital collapsed on Tuesday, triggering what is now being called the country's worst power crisis, and what's worse, it was the second in two days. Even as the Power Ministry scrambles to restore normalcy, inquiry has begun over what caused it. Sources say that the trouble started in the Eastern Grid this time. The optimal transmission frequency...
07:08 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Jaipur: As people in Rajasthan continued to suffer from the disruption in electricity supplies, the state government Tuesday rebutted the union power ministry's charge that it was overdrawing power beyond its limit from the Northern Grid. "We are overdrawing much below our permissible limit," state Energy Minister Jitendra Singh said. He however did not give any figures. Some states, including Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab have been held responsible...
02:20 AM, Aug 01, 2012
There was power blackout in almost half of India as three grids collapsed hitting 20 states and over 60 crore people. ...
11:49 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Veerappa Moily spoke on how he plans to tackle the power crisis. And embarrassingly for him, there was a power cut during the interview. ...
10:55 PM, Jul 31, 2012
For the second time in 24 hours, the northern grid collapsed on Tuesday. The eastern and the north eastern grids also followed suit. ...
10:30 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: Three electricity grids connecting more than 20 states and the national capital collapsed on Tuesday, triggering a major power crisis across the country. The power crisis was the second in two days. The blackout in 20 states across north, eastern and north-eastern India affected more than 60 crore people and severely impacted train services in six railway zones, bringing 300 trains to halt. According to the latest report,...
10:15 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Chandigarh/Lucknow: A blame game erupted among some states with whom the Centre also locked horns over the unprecedented power outage on Tuesday that affected 60 crore people - over half of the country's population. The second blackout in two days after the power crisis hit north India on Monday also gave ammunition to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to take potshots at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Power Minister Sushil Kumar...
09:27 PM, Jul 31, 2012
