Debt woes hit Rajasthan’s electricity sector: Arun Chaturvedi

Dr Arun Chaturvedi, former state president of the BJP and former minister, has released a statement saying, “In the field of electricity, Rajasthan, which was a leader, has fallen behind many states in the country in the last five years. Now, the situation is such that the state’s electricity companies do not have the funds to pay the salaries of their employees. Meanwhile, due to weak management, there have been power cuts for the third time this season.” He said that CM Gehlot’s management of electricity distribution companies has also led to a debt of more than Rs 1.10 lakh crore for these companies, and they are also taking loans to pay interest on the debt.
Dr. Arun Chaturvedi stated that during the monsoon season, in August, after the rains stopped, the state government failed to provide electricity to the farmers. As a result, due to the lack of timely irrigation, thousands of acres of crops were destroyed. He said that after the rain stopped, farmers hoped that timely electricity would allow them to irrigate through tube wells and wells, but the state government did not provide electricity to the farmers. When the farmers protested the lack of electricity, the government attributed it to a nationwide shortage.