Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today asserted that the state would be power surplus in the next six months even as she alleged that the Centre was “deliberately delaying” certain clearances for state government-initiated power projects.
“We have initiated a number of new power projects which could have got started, could have got commissioned but clearances are deliberately being delayed by the Central Government,” Jayalalithaa said replying to member of the 14th Finance Commission Sudipto Mundle at its meeting here.
There were many areas where the state government has got only limited powers and clearances have to be given by the central government which were being denied, she alleged, citing as examples the Kundah and Sillahalla Power Projects.
Mundle had raised the question of power situation about the gap between demand and supply in Tamil Nadu. “I assure you that in another six months or so, Tamil Nadu will be totally free of power cuts, it will be a power surplus state,” she asserted.
