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J&K floods: Steps taken to improve power, petroleum products' supply 9/18/2014 10:35:35 PM New Delhi, Sept 18: The Centre has taken a series of steps for restoration of power supply and improving availability of petrol, diesel and cooking gas in the floods hit areas of Jammu and Kashmir. While the Ministry of Power has taken a slew of measures to restore the heavily damaged power transmission lines and the distribution system, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has been working to ensure availability of essential petroleum products in the aftermath of floods in the state, an official spokesperson said here today. The availability of fuel--petrol, diesel and LPG, is normal in Jammu division, the spokesperson claimed. The situation in Srinagar division is challenging and efforts are being made to ensure that adequate fuel is made available in the division. In order to improve supply of petroleum products in Srinagar, Oil Marketing Companies have made available 33,296 LPG cylinders, 1,807 KL of petrol and 3,783 KL of diesel in Srinagar. In addition to LPG cylinders, 1,661KL Petrol and 3,292 KL of Diesel are in transit to Srinagar via Jammu Srinagar Highway NH-1A, via the alternative Kishtwar-Sinthan Top route and via the Leh-Srinagar route. There are 201 retail outlets in Srinagar Division, out of which 171 Retail Outlets are functional. The Private LPG Bottling Plant at Srinagar is operational. The LPG plant of HPCL in Srinagar is inundated with water. Hence, additional LPG cylinders are being bottled at the Bottling Plants of IOCL and HPCL in Jammu. Arrangements for additional bulk LPG supply to feed these Bottling Plants at Jammu and for trucks to transport cylinders from Jammu to Srinagar have been made. Two 2,400 GPM John Deere pumps sent by ONGC are running efficiently in two shifts in Rajbagh area and four pumps (2 of capacity 1,800 LPM and another two of capacity 275 LPM) sent from ONGC, Dehradun are running round the clock at Badami Bagh area in Srinagar.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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