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Patna,(BiharTimes): All the transformers installed under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Programme for Below Poverty Line households would burn by the time the United Progressive Alliance government goes out of power because it is based on the faulty policy.
This was stated on Tuesday by the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar while intervening in a short-notice question in the Legislative Council. |
He said that one-by-one all the transformers would go out of order because the central agencies have installed 16 KVA and 25 KVA transformers under the Programme. Because of power pilferage and heavy load these transformers usually break down.
Nitish said he had been raising the issue before the Prime Minister and Union Power Minister, besides the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission since 2006 but to no avail. The RGREP, it must be recalled, aimed at making available electricity to 10 per cent BPL households.
The chief minister said that he had time and again been asking the Centre to instal 63 KVA and 100 KVA transformers to overcome the load but no one paid heed to his request.
The central government has installed thousands of transformers under the Programme and if the chief minister’s fear is genuine all of them would break down causing huge loss to the government’s treasury. After all Bihar is not the only state where the state government has failed to check the pilferage of power.
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Our Flawless Captain- Glittering Examples !
Bataidaar( Sharecropper) Bill/Commission-We should demand apology from the government
for doing this more than futile exercise and the amount spent (taxpayer's money) on this should
be recovered from the executive. Or, at least make us aware of the recommendations.
Mahadalit Commission- All Dalits ( apologies for using this derogatory nomenclature) have now
become Mahadalits. What a transformation- from better to worse, indeed. And now other set of
population is on the brink of being duped - thanks to Savarna ( or whatever,but surely non-derogatory)
Aayog. Remember ! Warning ! Bihar has moved away from caste.
Panchayat Teachers- I heard a story that a Panchayat Shikshak was caught drawing his salary
from bank using thumb impression. No complaints- as kins of media people, politicians and officials
don't use these Schools. IAS officers have established school in Delhi exclusively for the offspring of
the Fraternity (source: BBC)
These are a few of the feathers of his cap.
Raj Gayawala
Delhi, India
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