Power crisis: Punjab is paying price for wrong policies of successive govts, say power engineers
Punjab’s power crisis continued on Friday, causing unscheduled power cuts lasting from two to 10 hours as the gap between demand and supply continued to grow.
Associations of electricity engineers blamed that the state was paying the price for wrong decisions of the successive governments and the lack of coordination between the Coal Ministry, Railway Ministry and Power Ministry.
The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) Engineers’ Association questioned the premature closure of thermal plants at Bathinda and two units at Ropar from January 1, 2018, which aggravated the power crisis as these units were closed without carrying out any techno-commercial analysis.
