CM to monitor power sector reforms

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, DEC. 13. The Chief Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna, said here on Wednesday that the State would witness a sea change in the power sector during the next four years.

Addressing a delegation of World Bank officers led by the World Bank's India Director, Mr. Edwin Lym, he said he would personally monitor the procedural implementation of the power sector reforms initiated by his Government. Mr. Krishna said the Government had undertaken many programmes to enhance power generation. The MRPL (Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited) had placed a proposal before the Government for supplying power at lower prices, and the same had been accepted in principle, he added.

Apart from this, the Karnataka Power Corporation had taken steps to complete the Vijayanagar and Bidadi power projects at the earliest, he said.He claimed that the staff of Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KTPCL) had not expressed any resentment or dissent over privatisation of the power distribution sector.

The Chief Secretary, Mr. B.K. Bhattacharya, the Additional Chief Secretary, Ms. Teresa Bhattacharya, the Finance Commissioner, Mr. C. Gopala Reddy, the Development Commissioner, Mr. A. Ravindra, and the Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. S.V. Ranganath, were present at the meeting.

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