Tamil Nadu yet to benefit from national grid.

It is almost one year now from the time that the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. declared that the transmission line between Sholapur in Maharashtra and Raichur in Karnataka was open to ferry power, making the concept of 'one-nation, one-grid' a reality.

The announcement of December 31 last year was received with much relief in southern India, especially in the energy-starved Tamil Nadu, since the technical linking of the power grids of 'Southern Region' with 'Rest of India' was taken to mean that electricity could flow to the south from other states.

This has not quite happened. South, and Tamil Nadu in particular, continue to reel under acute power shortage. Tamil Nadu has brought back scheduled power cuts and banned sale of electricity produced in the state to other states.

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