Don’t cut power connections for drinking and farming purposes: Uddhav Thackeray
The Hindu
Review meeting slams electricity department over rising losses and unnecessary expenditure
Ministers of all parties on Tuesday slammed the functioning of the Power department over cutting connections in villages, wrong numbers, rising losses and unnecessary expenditure. A review meeting on the functioning of the department was held in the presence of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
A senior Minister said the department’s operations are so bad that the government is set to face backlash and villagers will literally “chase us out” while another Minister commented that “the State budget is unlikely to bring the department and its companies out of financial mess”.
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