TN stops selling power to Maha, Punjab

Chennai: Tamil Nadu had stopped selling electricity to Maharashtra and Punjab from March 15 as the wind mills could not generate enough power due to lesser wind speed, State Electricity Minister N Veerasamy said on Friday.

Tamil Nadu was wheeling power generated from the wind mills to these two states.

Replying to queries raised by MDMK deputy leader N Ramakrishnan and Congress member Amaramurthy in the assembly over powercuts in some parts of the state, the Minister said the government was taking steps to solve the problem of powercuts and improve the situation.

However, he said there was no powercuts during night and farmers using motor pumps for irrigation during nights did not have any problem.

Earlier, Ramakrishnan said frequent power cuts during nights was affecting farmers depending on irrigation through motor pumps.