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| 33000 KV lines cause scare in Budgam village | | R&B permission not sought, records missing, reveals RTI | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 5: A 33000 KV line that passes through Branwar village of Budgam district has caused scare in the area but nobody in administration seems interested in coming to the rescue of the hapless villagers. The lines of 33,000KV in the area which originates from the 7.5 Megawatt mini-hydro electric power project located on Doodh Ganga canal in the same village.
The R&B Department has no records available to suggest whether permission as sought for laying the high voltage lines. In response to an RTI filed by Muhammad Aslam Wani The Executive Engineer vide his letetr No EE/CHD/9659-61 Dated 3/11/2012 has stated that the department had no records on the subject.
The reply of the PIO has raised fresh queries. The road on which lines and electric pylons have been laid belongs to Roads & Buildings (R&B) department and the project officials had to seek their permission. The applicant smells foul play on the grounds that the R&B officials cannot be supposed to be unaware of the project which involves laying of lines and installation of pylons. How did they allow laying of the lines without permission?
" The local power house owner and the R&B have put lives of the locals under threat by laying HT lines through the main road which is very narrow , if the lines were placed via different route it would have been safer for the locals but in order to save money the power house owner in connivance with R&B authorities put the lives of local villagers in danger" said Nazir Ahmad Ganai a local resident and a social activist
The transmission lines (33000 KV) passes over many residential houses and pose a threat to the population. A Chandigarh based company has constructed the power project under Build Own Operate & Transfer (BOOT) agreement "The transmission lines pose a huge threat to the locals especially during the winters when the area receives six to seven feet snow said the Abdul Rehman a resident while talking to Early Times.
"We approached the administration to direct the project management to shift the transmission
Lines but to no avail," said Abdul Rehman. Under BOOT agreement the power project management had to spend 2% annually on local area development but that also hasn't been done, he added.
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