Tamil Nadu will get major KKNPP share: Minister

 

Chennai: Joining issue with Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa who bla­med the Centre for energy shortfall faced by Tamil Nadu, Union minister of state for commerce and industry E.M. Suda­rsana Natchiappan on Wedn­es­day asserted that adequ­ate power has been ens­ured to the state by the Centre. 

 

The Centre was providing adequate power from the central grid as and when it was required by the State government and would provide major sh­are of energy produced from Kudankulam nuclear plant, he told reporters here.

 

“As per the demand from State government, we will try our best to allocate majority of the power produced from Kud­an­kulam plant,” he said ans­wering queries from repo­rters who drew his attention to a letter written by Jayalalithaa to the Prime Minister on Tuesday acc­using that Centre was responsible for shortage of 2,500 MW of energy in Ta­mil Nadu. 

 

“At the Kudankulam nuclear power project, the nuclear reactors are exp­ected to produce 1,000 MW by December 15. We will give the majority of the power produced to Tamil Nadu once it begins producing that much amount of power,” he said.

 

Jayalalithaa had urged Manmohan Singh to direct both the Union ministries of power and coal to take effective steps to ensure that the power plants under the control of Central government maximise their generation and restore the supply of po­wer to Tamil Nadu.