Over 50 Pc Consumers Linked Aadhaar Number With Tangedco: TN Electricity Minister

Over 50 per cent of 2.7 crore consumers have so far linked their Aadhaar number with Tangedco, Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji said on Friday.
        
Replying to a question on the possibility of extending the period, which ends on December 31, the Minister told reporters here that it will be decided in a couple of days, even as the Court has supported the utility of such linking.
        
The Minister was here to review the progress of setting up the stage and venue for the visit of Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister Udayanidhi Stalin on December 25. 
        
Udayanidhi will be distributing Government welfare schemes, the majority of them related to his portfolio to nearly 25,000 beneficiaries and will also review various ongoing projects, he said.
        
To a question on the demand from farmers to procure sugarcane from them and add to the Pongal gift, Senthil Balaji said Chief Minister M K Stalin had already announced the Pongal gift and the matter will be taken to his attention.
        
To yet another question on opposition from some political parties that giving Pongal a gift was a shame, the Minister said that some parties oppose freebies. However, they change their stand during election time and announce freebies, he pointed out.