Tamil Nadu to provide 1 lakh agriculture power connections in next six months

The State government had announced that it will provide one lakh agriculture service connections to the farmers, during the recently concluded Assembly session.

Accordingly, the Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji has announced that the State Government will provide one lakh agriculture service connections to the farmers on a fast track basis within the next six months.

He had earlier proposed to set up a solar power park with 4,000 MW capacity in the districts, excluding corporation and municipality limits. Announcing a 500 MW each capacity pumped storage power plants in Kothayaru in Kanniyakumari and Manalaru in Theni districts, he also proposed to establish 11 new pumped storage power plants with a total capacity of 7,500 MW on feasibility basis.