Panaji Apr 20 PTI The Goa government on Wednesday lifted the power load restriction on the industries in the state after it started purchasing additional electricity a senior official said The state government has started purchasing additional power and hence lifted the power load restriction on industries the official from electricity department said Goa State Industries Association GSIA president Damodar Kochkar thanked Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for the timely intervention On Tuesday Sawant had assured that the state will purchase 120 MW additional power from the open market The industry bodies in the state had assured the state government that they will pay for additional power as current load shedding was affecting their business The industry bodies had on Monday written to the state government raising concerns about the acute power shortage in the state resulting in load shedding thereby affecting the industry States all the prime Industry bodies Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industries GCCI GSIA and Goa Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers Association GPMA had written to Sawant and state Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar on Monday expressing their concerns PTI RPS NP NP

Panaji Apr 18 PTI Three major industry associations in Goa have written to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant over load-shedding in the state and said they are willing to contribute to purchase additional power to tide over the situation The letter was sent to Sawant and state power minister Sudin Dhavalikar on Monday by Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industries GCCI Goa State Industries Association GSIA and Goa Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers Association GPMA Since March this year industries are facing acute power shortage due to constant load restrictions as much as 12 hours per day imposed by government To address deficit additional power will have to be purchased by the government However the rise in the traffic in the IEX market has increased the cost substantially and the government finds it difficult to bear this burden said the letter The letter said in order to tide over this situation the cost of purchasing this additional power may be billed to all EHT and HT extra high tension and high tension consumers in the state till June 30 The electricity department should bill only for actual additional power purchased for this period for avoiding load shedding and no other charges should be passed on to the consumer the letter added PTI RPS BNM BNM

- Advertisement -Panaji While praising former IT minister Rohan Khaunte for bringing in discipline in the department MGP MLA Sudin Dhavalikar condemned all the other IT ministers for failing to help students in online educationAddressing a press conference Dhavalikar said that except during the tenure of Khaunte rest of the Information Technology ministers have failed to work on the connectivity issueDhavalikar pointed out that the development is the responsibility of the Chief ministerReferring to the connectivity issue Dhavalikar said that the CM had to face the parents during his Sanvordem constituency visit as students are not able to study online due to connectivity issueFor last one year the government has been lagging behind in providing connectivity due to which the students are facing problems he said