Karnataka Power Muddle

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

incredible KPCL!

Text of letter sent to Times of India:

I quote verbatim from a report in your columns today “A Bench directed the Karnataka Power Corporation to finalise the tender process for coal supply within six weeks so as to prevent the Raichur Thermal Power Plant from shutting down operations for want of coal”. So, somebody has had to move the Karnataka High Court to push the KPCL to carry out a routine function!

Simultaneously, a report on another page talked of the GM, Corporate Communications, collecting some, obviously dubious, awards at the World Kannada Cultural Convention in Bahrain, on top of the many similar ones he already has accumulated.


No further elaborations required here, I guess, as to what these say about the KPCL, which supposedly is entrusted with the handling of almost the entire power generation infrastructure in the state!


Incredible KPCL, indeed!