Power purchase pacts signed by Badals under review: Punjab CM

With the Punjab government feeling the heat of public protests on the issue of power shortage, chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday said power purchase agreements (PPA) signed by the previous SAD-BJP government were already under review and the Congress government would soon announce its legal strategy to counter these agreements that had put an “atrociously unnecessary financial burden” on the state.

The chief minister, who chaired a meeting to review the power situation in the state, later said that a carefully charted legal course of action was being formulated to save Punjab from further financial losses due to the ill-conceived PPAs signed by the Badals during their rule.