The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Jayalalithaa has doubts on quality of TV sets

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Wednesday, Aug 02, 2006

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Jayalalithaa has doubts on quality of TV sets

Special Correspondent

Jayalalithaa

CHENNAI: All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Jayalalithaa on Tuesday raised doubts about the quality of colour television sets to be distributed in the initial phase under the State Government's scheme of free distribution of colour TV sets.

On the announcement made in the Assembly last week regarding the selection of firms for supply of the TV sets, Ms. Jayalalithaa wondered that given the price mentioned, it was doubtful whether the sets would be of good quality. She said she was at a loss to understand why the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Government chose to go in for national competitive bidding in the first phase and international open competitive bidding in the next phase.

There was no proper answer to the question as to how many persons would be given the colour TV sets. The AIADMK leader asked how would the beneficiaries be able to view programmes (on different channels) and whether the Government would pay for the cable connections.

Referring to the Government's warning in the budget against those trying to make pecuniary gain out of the Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Memorial Marriage Assistance Scheme, Ms. Jayalalithaa said this itself vindicated her position that there were several irregularities in the execution of the scheme during the previous DMK regime.

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