- Chief Minister Mr.Siddaramaiah has personally gone through the “energy audit” to check how power was being distributed across the sectors and said this might even require forcing farmers to allow metering of agricultural pumpset
- The Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) told that there was no account how power is being utilized for agricultural, industrial and domestic consumption and no clear picture on transmission losses and thefts either
- Rs.6500 crore is the power subsidy bill which was around Rs.1800 crore in 2004-05, the CM opined the power generation in Karnataka was not in par and need to increase production capacity
- Increasing capacity in existing units is more important because opening new units was fraught with problems keeping the environmental impact told the Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar
- Energy minister opined that the KPCL should be run on a “business model”, with little “interference” from the government, to make this possible
- KPCL is facing crisis and the government is helping to come over the issues by making special budget allocations for subsidies to repay the dues of Rs.1200 crore
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/chief-minister-calls-for-energy-audit-metering-of-ip-sets/article6232260.ece