ENA State 2023-03-06 17:04:30 <p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Chennai, Mar 6 (KNN)</strong> The Tamil Nadu government has increased the limit of free electricity for power looms from 750 units to 1,000 units and for hand looms from 200 to 300 units.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Apart from this, power tariffs for more than 1,000 units has been reduced from Rs 1.40 to 70 paisa per unit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong><a href="https://bit.ly/3B9mZSj"><img alt="FOLLOW US on GOOGLE NEWS" src="https://knnindia.co.in//uploads/gallery/GoogleNews.jpg" style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:95px; margin:1px; width:299px" /></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">P Kanthavel, organising secretary of Federation of Tamilnadu Powerlooms Associations, said, Over six lakh power looms function in the state, out of which nearly 4 lakh power looms are in Erode, Salem, Namakkal, Tiruppur and Coimbatore districts. Unfortunately, this sector is facing downfall since 2015 due to several reasons.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">We faced many difficulties due to this and we had urged the government to increase free electricity limit for power looms and to reduce the power tariff, he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Kanthavel thanked the Chief Minister MK Stalin, Ministers V Senthil Balaji, MP Saminathan, S Muthusamy and R Gandhi for reducing the power tariff. <em><strong>(KNN Bureau)</strong></em></span></p> 32539 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/state/tamil-nadu-gives-additional-250-free-electricity-units-to-power-looms 2023-03-06 17:04:30 knnindia.co.in