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Breach of power quota to land state chief secreatry in jail?

The government is considering putting in place legal provisions to impose heavy fines and imprison chief secretary and other authorities of states that draw more than their scheduled quota of power from regional grids. "I am contemplating now heavy fine and also a provision to imprison authorities and state chief secretaries for disobeying that (load dispatcher's order to stop overdrawing)... perhaps we need to enforce it," power minister M Veerappa Moily said on Sunday. 

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