Union Power Minister blames Karnataka of denying right of way to Southern power grid


New Delhi, June 12 (IANS): The capacity of India's southern electricity grid has increased 89 per cent in the last three years and the Centre plans to double it in the next three years, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday while blaming the Karnataka government for posing hurdles to these plans.

"We have improved the capacity of southern grid by 89 per cent and will double the capacity in the next two-to-three years. However, Karnataka is not providing the right of way for drawing power lines," Goyal said in response to a query at a briefing here on three years of the NDA government.

"The media should flag this off to the state government," he said.

The Union minister said there is currently no shortage of power in any state, including Karnataka, and if a state wants to purchase power it is available at a price of Rs 2.40 per unit.

"There was no constraint in availability in the Power Exchanges during the peak demand period of summer and power was available at around Rs 3-3.50 per unit. The average price was around Rs 2.50 per unit," Goyal said.

Goyal, who is also Minister for Coal, Mines and New and Renewable Energy, said the state miner Coal India Limited is going to set up 1 GW of solar energy power generation, and will later work towards achieving 10 GW of renewable power capacity addition.

  

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  • vincent rodrigues, bangaluru/Katapadi

    Tue, Jun 13 2017

    No one denies if the project is viable and without any negative effect on the state

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  • KRPrabhu, Mangalore/Bangalore

    Mon, Jun 12 2017

    Devaru kottaroo...poojari bida....!

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  • Owin, Muscat

    Mon, Jun 12 2017

    Prachara for the next assembly election started by bjp

    Apart from blaming others do these people know any thing about governance

    Oops gobernance

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  • flavian dsouza, chik/bengaluru

    Mon, Jun 12 2017

    Lies and foooling people will work only once !!!now people are smart. please publish the letter which you have requested the right of way and what response you got from karnataka govt .
    It is only because of kudankuluam plant which Manmohan singh had to fight for 5 years to get it comissioned .

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  • mahesh, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 12 2017

    If you so sure that he is lying, you should drag him to court.
    But if you are not sure, then dont claim that he is lying.

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  • Namith, Kottara

    Mon, Jun 12 2017

    Siddu will demand for reservation in power supply , if you provide that he may give way for drawing power lines

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  • flavian dsouza, chik/bengaluru

    Mon, Jun 12 2017

    Goyal sir ...there was one plan to cut 60,000 trees hope you are not talking about !!!karnataka will oppose since its not good for the people . our trees are gone then lakes will dry up no water to drink but there will be power !!!!we cant drink power

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Jun 12 2017

    First sort out "About 10 per cent of Gujarat households do not have any electricity"
    Bhakts can google to find if this news is true ...

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  • Roshan, Mangaluru

    Mon, Jun 12 2017

    One can clearly understand the reality from the ministers claim itself the enhancement is 89percent within just 03years. As usual there is no records available for public scrutiny to review.

    Would have been respectful of the minister if he placed records in public domain and then, gone ahead with the claim. The usual practice of BJP is make a claim and then if one wants to find truth, he has to dig records all by himself. If the claim is unreal , it is hard even to get anything from even RTI.

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