Dear MK Ashok,
Firstly congratualations (belated) on your victory in the Velachery constituency in the assembly elections held early this year. The victory of your party in the elections gave hope to many in TN. Many of us were happy that we can finally witness good and responsible governance, which was clearly missing in the previous regime.
Although I am happy with many of the schemes that your Govt has introduced after coming to power, I will like to express my disappointment with something that has come to my notice off late. You might be aware that TN is struggling under severe power shortage for quite sometime now. In Chennai we have been subjected to daily power outages for 1 hr since May this year. Suburban areas witness nearly 3 hrs of power outages everyday . And recently I came across a news that said that this power outage is likely to continue till June 2012! You might also be aware that the recent strikes across Telengana is further affecting power supplies to TN. Under these circumstances, you will agree that it is criminal to waste electricity.
Our Honourable CM was very vocal (rightly so) about finding innovative solutions to TN's power woes as soon as she took charge of her office. She wanted to invest on Solar and other renewable means of energry to reduce the power problems of the state. Given these facts, I was flabbergasted yesterday to see the amount of electricity being wasted in Velachery! Your party workers had installed numerous tubelights and serial bulbs along with numerous hoardings of your leader on the Velachery bye-pass road. I believe your party workers wanted to welcome your leader to Velachery (or was she passing through the bye-pass road). I could count nearly 100 tube lights installed across the 1 KM stretch and these were glowing for nearly 12 hrs last night.
Assuming a single tube light consumes 60W of power, that would mean e(60W * 100 tubelights) * 12 hrs] = 72000 W of power was wasted just on tube lights. I haven't calculated the electricity consumption of the serial bulbs on the various cut-outs and hoardings that were also on display on the road. I don't know if your party workers paid TNEB for this electricity usage. Even if they did, don't you think we could have saved this power and put it to better use?
Mind you, I am not against party workers welcoming their leader, but shouldn't a party which promises better governance be more responsible with respect to their use of resources which are already scarce?
Given the spiralling costs, the increase in LPG prices and other petroleum products, many households are starting to become over reliant on Induction stoves and Ovens, the consumption of electricity has increased. And there are others who cannot afford Induction stoves and Ovens but they still do need the electricity.
As a member of the ruling party and as an MLA of the Velachery constituency you could have ensured that this wastage of power could have been avoided. If we as a state want to realise the dream of making TN the no 1 state in the country, we need to be more responsible and judicious in the way we use power/electricity.
Please can your ensure that such wastages are avoided in future.
Yours Sincerely
A concerned Velachery resident.
Firstly congratualations (belated) on your victory in the Velachery constituency in the assembly elections held early this year. The victory of your party in the elections gave hope to many in TN. Many of us were happy that we can finally witness good and responsible governance, which was clearly missing in the previous regime.
Although I am happy with many of the schemes that your Govt has introduced after coming to power, I will like to express my disappointment with something that has come to my notice off late. You might be aware that TN is struggling under severe power shortage for quite sometime now. In Chennai we have been subjected to daily power outages for 1 hr since May this year. Suburban areas witness nearly 3 hrs of power outages everyday . And recently I came across a news that said that this power outage is likely to continue till June 2012! You might also be aware that the recent strikes across Telengana is further affecting power supplies to TN. Under these circumstances, you will agree that it is criminal to waste electricity.
Our Honourable CM was very vocal (rightly so) about finding innovative solutions to TN's power woes as soon as she took charge of her office. She wanted to invest on Solar and other renewable means of energry to reduce the power problems of the state. Given these facts, I was flabbergasted yesterday to see the amount of electricity being wasted in Velachery! Your party workers had installed numerous tubelights and serial bulbs along with numerous hoardings of your leader on the Velachery bye-pass road. I believe your party workers wanted to welcome your leader to Velachery (or was she passing through the bye-pass road). I could count nearly 100 tube lights installed across the 1 KM stretch and these were glowing for nearly 12 hrs last night.
Assuming a single tube light consumes 60W of power, that would mean e(60W * 100 tubelights) * 12 hrs] = 72000 W of power was wasted just on tube lights. I haven't calculated the electricity consumption of the serial bulbs on the various cut-outs and hoardings that were also on display on the road. I don't know if your party workers paid TNEB for this electricity usage. Even if they did, don't you think we could have saved this power and put it to better use?
Mind you, I am not against party workers welcoming their leader, but shouldn't a party which promises better governance be more responsible with respect to their use of resources which are already scarce?
Given the spiralling costs, the increase in LPG prices and other petroleum products, many households are starting to become over reliant on Induction stoves and Ovens, the consumption of electricity has increased. And there are others who cannot afford Induction stoves and Ovens but they still do need the electricity.
As a member of the ruling party and as an MLA of the Velachery constituency you could have ensured that this wastage of power could have been avoided. If we as a state want to realise the dream of making TN the no 1 state in the country, we need to be more responsible and judicious in the way we use power/electricity.
Please can your ensure that such wastages are avoided in future.
Yours Sincerely
A concerned Velachery resident.
