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He was in the city to attend a cultural function at Balgadharva Rangmandir. His reaction has come in the wake of the almost unavoidable loadshedding from the first day of April.
The minister said, “Thanks to the initiative of the private industries in Pune, Pune model of zero loadshedding came into being and hence loadshedding could be kept at bay. Despite that, there was no control in the usage of electricity as the city roads were all illuminated. There should have been some control on it.”
He said, “People from Pune should understand the misery of citizens living in other parts of the State. The entire state is grappling with the power problem. So Pune alone cannot be kept loadshedding-free.” He said a joint meeting with all the concerned authorities over this issue would be held on Monday.
Giving a jolt to both, the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) and the captive power project (CPP) run by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) a few days back directed the MSEDCL to stop buying extra power from April to keep the zero-loadshedding model run for the city. It further suggested that the MSEDCL should appoint a franchisee to identify surplus power and enter into a power purchase agreement, which has to be done before April 1, otherwise one and a half hours of loadshedding daily will become a reality.
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