Make Delhi's emergency electricity restoration plan public

Make Delhi's emergency electricity restoration plan public

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                                                                                   Friday, June 13

 

The Aam Aadmi Party demands that the union power ministry and the Delhi administration should immediately make public their emergency electricity restoration plan to ensure there would be no long power cuts in the national capital.

It is a matter of grave concern that even two weeks after the May 30 thunderstorm, which the power department officials are blaming for the destruction of power cables and towers, no concrete action plan to prevent such a situation from arising in the future, appears to be in place.

Though there appears to be some merit in the statement of union power minister Mr Piyush Goyal that lack of investment in infrastructure for last 10 years during former chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s regime is responsible for the weak network of electricity transmission and distribution, but what is beyond understanding is his complete silence on the functioning of private power distribution companies (discoms).

What is worrying is the complete lack of accountability in the functioning of the power department and the unexplained hesitation to fix the responsibility for the long power cuts which made the life of the people miserable in scorching heat.     

The silence of both, the BJP and the Congress on the functioning of discoms and their inability to ensure uninterrupted power supply, gives rise to reasonable apprehension about their close relations with these discoms.