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I am not sure it is wise for Kayalites to cough up 20 lakhs to acquire land for EB. It is true a sub-station's role is to stabilise power supply (and we will be ultimate beneficiaries), but should we use our money to give land for free (even though it is for our cause)? Please check the following link http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/26/stories/2010112661490300.htm. As you can see, TNEB is acquiring lands (presumably at its cost) to build sub-stations in those locations.

A sub-station would probably cost about 10 crores to build. Couldn't TNEB spare 20 lakhs for the cost of land in this? One can understand difficulty in acquiring/identifying land - where we can assist/spare land, but why collect money and give the land free? That money can be used for someother good cause.

If that is the TN Government's universal policy, that is fine, we can raise money. But the government is not without money and as we can see, elsewhere they are paying to acquire land. What then is the use of being upgraded to second grade municipality and in two years time, to first grade municipality, if we still have to pay government for it to do its job?

Many Kayalites/institutes have given land for Transformers in Kayalpatnam for free. What next then? If a transformer is to be built in some location in future, will we then raise money for that land too or may share in the burden of buying transformer units?

I am not an expert on this, but surely if the TNEB has decided to bifurcate Arumuganeri Sub-station and build one more to relieve burden on Arumuaganeri unit, we are going to be benefitted even if the sub-station comes up in Authoor (and relieve pressure on Arumuganeri).

We must use RTI and enquire the actual going ons on this matter.