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Pvt franchisees in power sector will lead to cherry-picking: TN CM
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SME Times News Bureau | 08 Jul, 2020
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Wednesday told the central
government that allowing private franchisees in power sector will lead
to cherry-picking.
He also said that the free power supplied to
agriculture sector and households should not be brought under the direct
benefit transfer (DBT) scheme.
In a letter to R.K. Singh, Union
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and New and Reweable
Energy, Palaniswami said some of the provisions mentioned in the draft
Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 are detrimental to the state
government/state utilities.
"Provisions in the draft Amendment
Bill to allow private franchisee/sub-licencee will only lead to
cherry-picking of remunerative areas by the franchisee/sub-distribution
licencee, affecting the DISCOMs directly and thereby the public
interest. The state discoms will be left with serving social sector
obligations and rural areas which will result in massive losses to the
discoms," Palaniswami said.
Palaniswami also said it is
unacceptable to fix hydroelectricity purchase obligations separately to a
state like Tamil Nadu as it is seasonal and monsoon-dependent, which is
not in the control of power distribution companies.
"To avoid
disparity among the States with different sources of renewable energy
available, it is suggested that Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) can
be fixed for total renewable energy rather than independently fixing for
solar, non-solar, hydro etc," the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister wrote to
Singh.
Welcoming the central government's liquidity infusion
package of Rs 90,000 crore to power distribution companies for clearing
their dues, Palaniswami said the central government should relax the
norms for working capital under the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana
(UDAY).
He also said the state's power utility Tamil Nadu
Generation and Distribution Corporation Ltd has already applied for the
financial assistance of Rs 20,622 crore to Power Finance Corporation
(PFC) and Rural Electrification Corporation (REC).
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