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Two-hour load shedding may be reduced to one hour per day
Posted by ganesh in Departments, Dindigul, Karaikudi, Other, TNEB, government, meeting, ramanathapuram on December 15th, 2009
All dams and reservoirs are overflowing in the State, owing to the recent rain. Compare to last year, rainfall ratio is much better than this year. Even though there is a sufficient rainfall, why is it that there is electricity scarcity in Tamil Nadu?
The existing two-hour load shedding may be reduced to one hour per day.
S. Thangavel,
Dindigul.
Scrap VAT on generators
Tamil Nadu has been experiencing permanent power cut problems more than a year as there is a permanent load shedding schedule for each and every part of the State for fixed hours.
In these modern days of computer era, every house dependents on electricity, leave alone business places and industries.
Generators and inverters have come to the rescue. To make generators available to the middle class people, the State Government should completely scrap Value Added Tax (VAT) on generators and inverters. The Government should, at the same time, enforce a long-term solution to the power problem.
Asmabagh Anvardeen,
Ramanathapuram.
Electrical crematorium needed
In Paramakudi municipal limit, there is a burial ground near Manjalpattinam. Now, residential colonies have come up near it. When is body is burnt, bad smell emanates, causing health hazard. Will authorities set up an electrical crematorium?
V. Rajendran,
Paramakudi.
Uniform painting for buses
Nowadays, all buses, including moffusel as well as town buses, have different colours of enamel paintings. One cannot, particularly the poor and illiterate, easily locate / identify the town buses among them at bus stand. In other words bus users are put to hardship to distinguish town buses from others. Two decades ago all town buses had aluminium painting throughout the State, which enables the public to easily identify the town buses even at a considerable distance.
K. Somasundaram,
Devakottai.
Ten out of the 32 dams in nine southern districts dams overflowing
Ten out of the 32 dams in nine southern districts under the jurisdiction of the Water Resources Organisation, Madurai Region, of the Public Works Department have surplussed in the past few days.
Among the 7,287 irrigation tanks in the region, including eight districts and a portion of Dindigul district, 1,651 tanks are filled to the brim. Almost an identical number of tanks have water up to 75 per cent of their capacity.
Among the overflowing reservoirs, four each are in Theni and Tirunelveli districts. Vaigai, Shanmuganadi, Marudhanadi and Sothuparai dams in Theni district and Karupappandi, Gundar, Gadana and Ramanadi in Tirunelveli district have surplussed.
Both the districts, along the Western Ghats, have been largely benefited by the recent rain, says P. Ramamoorthy, Chief Engineer, WRO, Madurai Region.
The rain in the Western Ghats has also benefited the Mullaperiyar dam, which is just one foot short of overflowing.
The Marudhanadi dam in Dingidul and Sasthakoil dam in Virudhunagar district are the two others overflowing. Three major dams in Tirunelveli district — Papanasam, Manimuthar and Servalar — have significant storage.
Poor storage
However, the districts of Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga and Virudhunagar continue to have poor storage in the tanks.
Just three tanks (out of the total 1,115) in Sivaganga have water to their capacity. Eighteen (out of 342) tanks in Virudhunagar and 26 (out of 623) tanks in Ramanathapuram are full.
“We have sought the State government’s permission to fill the system tanks in Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram districts with (the 3,600 mcft of) Vaigai credit in the reservoir,” Mr. Ramamoorthy said.
Vaigai credit water, divided into 12 parts, is distributed among Madurai, Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram districts. While Sivaganga is eligible for three parts, Ramanathapuram gets seven. Madurai district is eligible for two parts.
As of now, the surplus water from the Vaigai dam is being used to fill the Big Tank in Ramanathapuram.
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