Notice to Centre on power crisis in Tamil Nadu

MADURAI: The Madurai High Court Bench has ordered notice to the Centre on a PIL praying for directions to end the ‘unprecedented’ power crisis in the State.The petitioner, B Stalin, had held the Centre responsible for the power shortage, claiming that Tamil Nadu was being haunted bypower crises for more than five years due to the neglect the Union government shows towards the State. Blaming the Centre for acting in a ‘step motherly’ way towards the State, Stalin said that power generated at Neyveli should not be supplied to other states until the power crisis eased in Tamil Nadu.