Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that he was yet to receive any proposal from the Central Government for establishment of atomic energy units at the Bathinda and Ropar power plants.
Talks on the subject of using atomic energy for power production had been going on for a long time but there was nothing concrete yet on the table, Capt Amarinder told the mediapersons in response to a question after meeting the Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.
Asked to react on the issue, he said that he would do so as and when the formal proposal comes to him.
“At the moment, I do not even have a Power Minister,” the Chief Minister quipped, in an apparent reference to Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation after his refusal to take over the Power portfolio allocated to him as part of a state cabinet reshuffle post the Lok Sabha elections.The Chief Minister has been personally monitoring the Power Department functioning on a day-to-day basis, in view of the ongoing paddy season, which requires continuous Power.