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Maharashtra to announce terms of reference of Enron probe in a week

The Maharashtra government will announce within a week the terms of reference of the proposed judicial probe into the power purchase agreement with US energy major Enron, the state legislative council was informed on Tuesday.

Making the announcement during question hour, the Minister for Energy Padamsinh Patil made it clear that the July 11 announcement by Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was about the decision taken by the Democratic Front to constitute a judicial inquiry into the controversial PPA.

An official announcement about the probe with the scope of terms of reference would be made in a week's time, Patil said while replying to supplementaries, on a question asked by Prakash Jawadekar of the BJP.

The minister said that Enron had not sent any proposal to the Maharashtra government about reducing power tariff of the Dabhol electricity supply but talks in this regard were on with the Godbole committee, set up to review the project.

The Maharashtra State Electricity Board had stopped purchasing DPC power from May 29, 2001, he said.

Minister of State for Finance Rajendra Darda told members that government would place all relevant documents pertaining to the Enron agreement before the house.

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