SRINAGAR, June 12: A meeting of Committee on Public Undertaking was held today under the Chairmanship of MLA, Mr. Mohammad Sharief Niaz and discussed in detail the recommendations of the 45th Committee Report submitted to the House on April 3, this year. The members of the Committee,Peer Afaq, Mr. Abdul Gaffar Sofi, Mr. Jagdish Raj Spolia, Mr. Jugal Kishore, Syed Basharat Bukhari and Mr. Ghulam Nabi Monga were present in the meeting.
During the deliberations, the Members emphasized on the concerned officers to ensure regular power supply and stressed for immediate replacement of old electricity poles with new electricity poles with providing conductors.
The meeting also discussed the latest position in respect of finalization of pending accounts of the PDC. They stressed upon the officers of the department for taking necessary steps for checking the Transmission and distribution losses and power theft, besides upgrading power infrastructure of the State. The meeting also discussed threadbare initiatives taken by the department for further generation of the electricity and effective steps being taken by the department for increasing the revenue and reduce the T&D losses. While deliberating on the present status of the Baghliar Hydle project and other projects presently under execution in the State, the chairman stressed for further efforts to improve the power situation in the State with exploring new ways and means for establishing new power projects in the State. He said that the State has tremendous potential to generate power, which not only be sufficient for meeting out own requirements but we will able to export that to the people of the State. The meeting was attended among others by Principal Secretary, PDD, Mr. A.K Mehta, Managing Director, PDC, Mr. Basharat Ahmad Dhar, Development Commissioner PDD, Mr. Asgar Ali, Chief Engineer, Gen. Kashmir Mumtaz Ahmad, Principal Accountant General, executive Director, JKPDD and other senior officers of the concerned department. |
