Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 20: Minister of State for Technical Education, Power and Information, Vikar Rasool Wani has called upon the authorities of Power Development Corporation (PDC) to step up efforts to ensure that power projects that have been approved are completed as per schedule.
The Minister was reviewing the status of power projects which have been approved in the State at an officers’ meeting held here today.
Managing Director, PDC, Mehraj Ahmad Kakroo, Chief Engineers, Superintending Engineers and Executive Engineers of different wings of the department attended the meeting.
Stressing the need for exploiting all available resources for harnessing the energy in the State, the Minister directed the engineers to put in their best efforts to make the state self-reliant in the power sector. He maintained that the initiatives taken at Government level for improving the power scenario needs to be implemented in letter and spirit at the ground level.
Referring to the recommendations of Rangrajan Committee, the Minister directed the MD PDC to vigorously pursue the matter at appropriate level in order to pave way for transfer of power projects to the State. Once State Government gets these power projects back the overall power scenario of the State would open new hopes for people as well as industrial unit holders, said the Minister.
Vikar said that cost of electricity should be made important constituent while framing the power projects and asked engineers to prioritize the projects which are cost effective. He said Hydro Power is cheaper and have less impact on environment and asked authorities of PDC to exploit the water sources for this purpose.
Mr Kakroo said that the Corporation has a best pool of experts and capable manpower is working tirelessly to take forward the projects approved for the state . He asked engineers to be more serious in their area of work and utilize their professional capabilities for development of power sector in the State.
While giving the achievements of the Corporation, the MD through a power point presentation, said that state would be able to generate 16475 MW by 2020 , which included 355 MW in 2013, 450 MW in 2015 , 253 MW in 2017, 293 MW in 2018, 1096 MW in 2019 and 2450 MW in 2020. Under RGGVY, 143 projects are targeted to benefit 54313 households of 3634 habitations against which, 82 have been completed and benefitted 2558 households of 1280 habitations, he added.
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