Dear Esteemed Members of the Media,
With reference to my telecon with you yesterday and today, Request you to kindly carry the appended press release in your esteemed print and electronic Media. CII Goa leads Industry to find a solution to the Reliance Power imbroglio CII Goa had taken up the issue of the abrupt cancellation of Power by Reliance supplied to some of the industries, to the doors of the Goa Government. The delegation led by Chairman Kirit Maganlal and Atul Pai Kane met the Chief Minister on two consecutive days to find an amicable resolution to this vexed issue. Mr Maganlal informed that though they have been informed of this issue since April 2014, it decided to intervene when some of its member companies brought this up and requested the Chairman to spearhead the delegation. At the end of the meeting, Mr Maganlal informed the media that the Hon'ble Chief Minister was proactively trying to sort out the high handed attitude shown by the management of Reliance Power in trying to harass its power consumers who form an important part of the Goan Industry. The Chief Minister has assured the delegation, in the presence of the Chief Electrical Engineer and the Principal Secretary, Mr R K Srivastava, that the Government will wheel the required power needs of these industries through a negotiated deal with Reliance by using their existing T&D network until the time that Reliance Power do not resume supply of the same and till the current PPA with Reliance exists. Mr Parag Joshi, Vice Chairman of CII expressed the hope that these industries would also benefit by a reduction of the tariff from the current Rs 16 per unit to less than Rs 10 per unit under this initiative taken by CII. Mr Maganlal also stated that the Chief Minister has assured that these decisions will be taken and executed before 5th June 2014. It is to be recollected that The Power purchase agreement and subsequent agreements entered by the Goa State Government with the Reliance Power Plant will end on 14th August 2014. During the first notice of shutdown issued by Reliance Power to its consumers in April 2014, CII had intervened and arranged an emergency meeting with the Power minister and Chief Engineer to prevail upon Reliance not to stop the power plant. Chronology of Events: * Reliance plant shutdown notice received from midnight of 18th April 2014 due to technical reason, this shutdown was unplanned and last minute requested by Reliance. At a high level meeting organized by CII with the Hon'ble CM, Reliance allowed arranging backup supply from their resources so that 76 industries power supply will continue. * An emergency meeting was organized by Vice Chairman CII, Parag Joshi alongwith the affected consumers in the chamber of the Power Minister, Mr Milind Naik and Chief Engineer Mr Lekshmanan on 21 April wherein it was decided to impress upon Reliance to continue allowing use of their T&D network and GOG would wheel its own power through this network. It was also proposed to ask all consumers to formally apply to the Dept of Electricity for sanction of load from the GOG. * Despite use of GOG power, Reliance continued charging the consumers the contracted rate @ upto Rs 16 and with no guarantee of reliability of outages and tripping. Industry suffered due to lack of quality power and high power tariff. * CII was called in to intervene and Chairman along with Atul Pai Kane and Parag Joshi met the Hon'ble CM on 30th May requesting him to immediately intervene to solve the issue. * CII headed my Kirit Maganlal and Parag Joshi met the Hon'ble CM on 31st May once again with the CE and Principal Secretary and worked out a roadmap before 5th June to settle the issue in the interest of all these affected industry stakeholders With kind regards, John Fernandes <mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- <mailto:[email protected]> John Fernandes Membership Relations Manager - Goa State & <mailto:[email protected]> Executive Officer - Goa State Office <mailto:[email protected]> Confederation of Indian Industry <mailto:[email protected]> 502, Unitech City Center, <mailto:[email protected]> M. G. 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