Democracy remote controlled?

Obviously I have lifted the title from the recent hindi movie tagline, called "Rann" which was supposed to be exposing the politician-businessman-media nexus. The tagline goes as "When a voice of conscience cannot be heard & when democracy is remote controlled.. will we ever know the truth?". I thought it would be very apt to today's blog point!!

How it is relevant to today's post?

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Harsh Truth about Tamilnadu Electricity Situations

I got a forwarded article couple of days back with the following facts:
1) From Neyveli lignite corp (in Tamilnadu), 11 crore unit of Electricity(Megawatts?) being dispatched to Karnataka daily.
2) From Neyveli lignite corp (in Tamilnadu), 9 crore unit of Electricity being dispatched to Kerala daily.
3) From Neyveli lignite corp (in Tamilnadu), 6 crore unit of Electricity being dispatched to Andhra Pradesh daily.

But the total insufficiency for the Tamilnadu state for its own consumption itself is 22 Crores when their own state unit sending 26 crores of units to neighboring states.

The irony is TN government is paying huge premium price for such deficiency to compensate with where they could be self-reliant on themselves with NLC. :)

I guess big lobbying happening to create a fake demand to estabilish the controversial nuke plant at Koodankulam.

Beware or Be Aware??!!@#

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