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Monday, Jul 14, 2025
KSEB has decided to go for costly real-time power purchases, commission new short term hydel projects and operationalise other non-coal stations to tide over the national power crisis.
The recent shortage of coal has led to reduced power generation at three plants, a technical problem at a plant in Bengal is believed to be the major factor for the current crisis.
However, the official holding the post, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, is currently out-of-station.
Electricity Minister K Krishnankutty said that KESMA will not be invoked against the striking officers of KSEB.
The electricity board has informed that going by the assessment of 2021-22, the board is expecting a profit of over Rs 1,400 cr.
Alleging that Kumar had misused the Board's vehicles while he was the additional private secretary to former power minister M M Mani, the notice directed him to remit Rs 6,72,560 for the unauthorised use of the vehicles.
A division bench of justices C S Dias and Basant Balaji made the reference while hearing petitions questioning the strike by the Officers' Association.
The two groups have been at loggerheads with each other for the past many months.
The new development came barely a day after Power Minister K Krishnankutty had initiated reconciliatory talks between the KSEB and Officers' Association.
At the conciliatory talks held by Power Minister K Krishnankutty in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday, there was consensus on the need for a quick resolution of the seemingly intractable Board-officers rift.
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