The people of Tamil Nadu who have direct experience of the power shortage in the State were only ridiculing the claims of the Chief Minister and the Minister of the department that the power generation in the State was not affected, said DMK President Kalaignar,
Answering a question on this regard on Aug 6, Kalaignar said there were 1,385 electric sub-stations in the state. Still as there were no sub-stations in many required places power supply get disconnected for hours together due to ‘overload’ and ‘low voltage’. In the meanwhile, power generation has been halted in Vallur and North Chennai thermal power stations, causing loss of 1,100 MW. In the night of Aug 3, power generation was halted due to technical errors in the 600 MW first unit of North Chennai extension and in Vallur at the same time the generation was stopped due to ‘boiler tube puncture’, Kalaignar explained.
Answering another question on false reports being published daily by ‘Dinamalar’ daily, Kalaignar said the daily had to ‘balance’ this way by publishing false reports on DMK in its fear of Jayalalitha’s ire because of reports on government’s failures. It was the same case with ‘Kumudam Reporter’ periodical. However, the DMK cadre and neutral minded knew that they were all false.
Referring to the reports in dailies on free bus passes for senior citizens awaited for three years now, Kalaignar said that he had already referred to this on May 20. The ADMK election manifesto for 2011 Assembly elections promised that ‘”free bus passes would be issued to all over 58 years in local and nearby towns and villages by government buses, hostels would be set up for the stay of elders, elderly men and women and children without support where they would be provided food for three times a day, reading rooms, dhyana mandapam and natural ambience” and believing them true people also voted for them. But three years had rolled out since the ADMK came to power. Jayalalitha reads out two or three statements a day under rule 110 and sought publicity but she seemed to have forgotten her assurance to senior citizens, Kalaignar said.
Asked about ‘Amma canteens’, Kalaignar referred to a report in the daily ‘The Times of India’ on July 17 under the title ‘There’s trouble cooking at Amma canteens in city’, which stated “After earning praise and adulation from people across the world, Amma canteens are in for some unwelcome attention. For, the corporation’s vigilance department is turning a hawk eye on them. A year after the subsidized canteens were launched, the vigilance department has found discrepancies in their functioning; complaints range from poor accounting and stock-keeping to vegetables being sold outside. The Corporation’s vigilance officers conducted surprise checks last week at canteens in the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and on S.N. Chetty Street in Royapuram. “We got the most complaints from these canteens. We found that no register was being maintained for attendance or accounts for vegetables and ingredients” said a vigilance officer”.
This was the condition of irregularities in ‘Amma’ canteens, and it was said that vegetables there were sold in open markets by some workers there, Kalaignar said.
Answering a question on this regard on Aug 6, Kalaignar said there were 1,385 electric sub-stations in the state. Still as there were no sub-stations in many required places power supply get disconnected for hours together due to ‘overload’ and ‘low voltage’. In the meanwhile, power generation has been halted in Vallur and North Chennai thermal power stations, causing loss of 1,100 MW. In the night of Aug 3, power generation was halted due to technical errors in the 600 MW first unit of North Chennai extension and in Vallur at the same time the generation was stopped due to ‘boiler tube puncture’, Kalaignar explained.
Answering another question on false reports being published daily by ‘Dinamalar’ daily, Kalaignar said the daily had to ‘balance’ this way by publishing false reports on DMK in its fear of Jayalalitha’s ire because of reports on government’s failures. It was the same case with ‘Kumudam Reporter’ periodical. However, the DMK cadre and neutral minded knew that they were all false.
Referring to the reports in dailies on free bus passes for senior citizens awaited for three years now, Kalaignar said that he had already referred to this on May 20. The ADMK election manifesto for 2011 Assembly elections promised that ‘”free bus passes would be issued to all over 58 years in local and nearby towns and villages by government buses, hostels would be set up for the stay of elders, elderly men and women and children without support where they would be provided food for three times a day, reading rooms, dhyana mandapam and natural ambience” and believing them true people also voted for them. But three years had rolled out since the ADMK came to power. Jayalalitha reads out two or three statements a day under rule 110 and sought publicity but she seemed to have forgotten her assurance to senior citizens, Kalaignar said.
Asked about ‘Amma canteens’, Kalaignar referred to a report in the daily ‘The Times of India’ on July 17 under the title ‘There’s trouble cooking at Amma canteens in city’, which stated “After earning praise and adulation from people across the world, Amma canteens are in for some unwelcome attention. For, the corporation’s vigilance department is turning a hawk eye on them. A year after the subsidized canteens were launched, the vigilance department has found discrepancies in their functioning; complaints range from poor accounting and stock-keeping to vegetables being sold outside. The Corporation’s vigilance officers conducted surprise checks last week at canteens in the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and on S.N. Chetty Street in Royapuram. “We got the most complaints from these canteens. We found that no register was being maintained for attendance or accounts for vegetables and ingredients” said a vigilance officer”.
This was the condition of irregularities in ‘Amma’ canteens, and it was said that vegetables there were sold in open markets by some workers there, Kalaignar said.
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