Jalandhar, October 7
Mr Shamsher Singh Dullo, President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC), has advocated the need for setting up a nuclear power generation plant and a world class business school in Punjab.
Mr Dullo is likely to take up the two issues with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and UPA Chairperson, Ms Sonia Gandhi, during the ongoing Chief Ministers’ conclave in Chandigarh.
He is of the view that such a plant could be the ‘only cost-effective’ answer to meet huge deficiency of power of around 600 MWs. Punjab, it was learnt, is currently generating nearly 3,200 MW of power and purchasing 1100 MW from other sources and still there is a deficiency of nearly 600 MW.
“In today’s situation,
a nuclear power generating plant in Punjab is very much viable from all angles, particularly, as Indo-Pak bilateral relations are becoming more and more congenial due to the untiring efforts of Dr Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Gen Pervez Musharraf and both leaders have already stated that there was no scope for going back from the path of peace treaded by both sides.”
Talking to The Tribune, Mr Dullo said Punjab could not progress till agriculture diversification was effected in a practical and farmer-friendly shape. “The future belongs to diversification and we need to bring revolutionary changes in the way we have been trying to introduce diversification,” he said.
