Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 30: Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh informed the Lower House that Detailed Project Report (DPR) of 1856 MW Sawalkote Hydro Electric Project (HEP) is under appraisal of Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and a request has been made for expeditious appraisal process so that follow up steps for implementation of the project are taken.
Replying to a question by BJP MLA Neelam Langeh, the Minister said, “no power project is under construction at Dessa”, adding “in case of a natural calamity causing damage to the power infrastructure, the restoration work is taken up on war footing using all the material available in Divisional Stores procured for other on-going works”.
In response to another query, he said, “the PDD strives to bring back on rails the damaged network and preference is given to restoration of essential services like PHE, Hospitals, Telephone Exchange etc”, adding “the endeavour of the department is to supply electricity to the consumers round the year despite limitations of high load vis-a-vis agreemented load on receiving stations, revenue realization, systemic load / transmission constraints etc”.
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