No immediate relief from power crisis in Punjab
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday remained non committal on immediately improving the power situation in the state and blamed the previous Congress government for the power crisis.
By PTI |
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday remained non committal on immediately improving the power situation in the state and blamed the previous Congress government for the power crisis.
"It is due to the failure of the previous Congress government that the state had to face problem of electricity. Not even a single Mega Watt of power was added during the last regime," Badal told reporters here.
He, however, said that the state government was in the process of setting up three thermal plants. These thermal plants would be set up at Gobindwal in Amritsar, Talwandi Sabo and one near Nabha, he added.
"It takes over three years to set up thermal plants," he said.
Badal also remained non-committal on the setting up of nuclear plant in the state. "It's (setting up of nuclear plant) not definite," he added.
"We want that a nuclear plant be set up in Rajasthan with Punjab having a share into it," he said.
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