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The CPI(M) said its Kerala State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, whom the CBI plans to prosecute in the SNC Lavalin case, had been cleared by a 2006 vigilance enquiry in the same case. The then UDF government in Kerala had signed the MoU with the Canadian firm SNC Lavalin in 1995 for modernisation of power projects and the Minister then was G Karthikeyan of the Congress, the party said.
The Oomen Chandy government was"unhappy"with the February 2006 vigilance report and had decided to hand the case over to the CBI, the party said in a statement in New Delhi.The decision was then opposed by the CPI(M), which had described it as"a patently political move"as it had come just ahead of the assembly elections at that time.
Let the power generators rejoice! Generating companies will now be able to earn a higher rate of return on their equity investment in power projects. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) issued new tariff regulations for next five years(2009-14) under which the base rate for return ...
The Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) issued fresh notices to the Reliance Energy Limited (REL) and its three subsidiaries - Nesco, Southco and Wesco - to file objections to the petition of labour leader Sarat Chandra Mohanty.The regulatory commission initiated proceedings against the ...
Maytas Infrastructure, a sister concern of the defamed IT major Satyam Computers, has its shadow in Sundergarh district of Orissa state. As the infrastructure company has taken up rural electrification programme on sub-contract basis from Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) in 11 out of ...
The central government has relaxed captive coal mining norms to allow power companies to divert surplus coal from one of their projects to another.Permission will be given on a case-to-case basis to coal-surplus companies that approach the coal ministry, said a senior government official who asked n...
To cheer the Reliance Group, Congress MP Sandeep, who represents East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, asked the Delhi Chief Minister and his mother Sheila Dikshit to disband the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission(DERC), which he said is being run by a set of people "who are completely inactive." ...
Close on the heels of the Centre turning down the state’s request for more time for unbundling of the Himachal state Electricity Board (HPSEB), there is fresh trouble for the government. The State Electricity Regulatory Commission (HPERC) has asked the government and Himachal Pradesh State Electrici...
Stating that unbundling of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) would encourage competition among the various departments of the Board, Mr Y S Ratra, Chairman of the PSEB called for implementing the recommendations of the Electricity Act 2003. “Although, it is up to the state government to deci...
Sugar factories, which are setting up co-generation projects in Maharashtra, have made demand for increasing the power purchase rate that has been fixed by the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL).The factories will soon approach the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Comm...
