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CHANDIGARH/AMRITSAR: Congress’ Navjot Singh Sidhu took to Twitter on Friday to suggest ways to Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh to tackle the ongoing power crisis in the state. He said there would be no need for power cuts or for the CM to change office timings if “we act in the right direction”.
Sidhu’s thread of nine tweets comes at a time when opposition parties are gunning for the Congress government over long power outages in the state on Wednesday and Thursday. His suggestions came even as he himself has a pending electricity bill of Rs 8.6 lakh to pay to the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd for his residence in Amritsar. According to PSPCL’s website, the cash and cheque payment due date is July 2.
The officers claimed the power availability and supply situation was quite normal with no further need of imposing power cuts.
PATIALA: Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) has decided to enhance the compulsory weekly off day imposed on the Industry in the central, north and west zone also. The restriction would be imposed on industry of the south and border zones will also be imposed from next week.
A meeting was held here on Friday under the chairmanship of PSPCL CMD A Venu Prasad and distribution director DPS Grewal, generation director Parmjeet Singh and PSTCL technical director Yogesh Tandon participated. The situation arising out of unprecedented high power demand due to prolonged dry spell even in the first week of July was discussed in detailed.
Facing power crisis, Punjab curtails office timings
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Chandigarh, July 2 : Facing severe electricity crisis, the Punjab government has curtailed timings of government offices from Friday, and cutting down of power supply to high energy consuming industries with immediate effect to save crops and ease the domestic power situation.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has appealed to all government offices to make judicious use of electricity in government offices, adding that the situation was dire as the peak demand in the state had touched a whopping 14,500 MW.
A government spokesperson told IANS that no decision on ban on use of ACs in government offices, which will function from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. till further orders, has been taken.
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