The Centre is planning to levy heavy penalties on States that overdraw electricity and imprison their Chief Secretaries to curb the practice that cause grid failure.
“I am contemplating now [a] heavy fine and also a provision to imprison authorities and Chief Secretaries for disobeying that... Perhaps, we need to enforce it,” Union Power Minister Veerapa Moily told Karan Thapar in Devil’s Advocate programme on CNN-IBN.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/centre-penalise-states-over-drawal-power
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electricity
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-power
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/power-transmission
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/grid
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/energy