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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 5: Work on sports stadium at Thandapani was taken up for which Rs. 1 Lakh was provided by the concerned MLC during the year 2011-12.
This was stated by Minister for Planning, Labour and Development Ajay Kumar Sadhotra while replying to a question by Ravinder Kumar Sharma in the Legislative Council today. He added that forest department claimed the proposed piece of land for construction of stadium pertains to them. Construction work on the project was stopped and the land issue is yet to be resolved, he added.
Minister replying to supplementary by Ghulam Qadir Pardesi assured that as soon as land issue is resolved, construction on stadium would be started. Replying to another question by Vijay Bakaya, Minister informed that government is committed to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the metered areas. He said due to losses sustained on account of illegal hooking, pilferage and theft resorted to by the consumers; the department has issued curtailment scheduled of 2 hour power supply in metered areas.
Minister informed that in the unmetered and partially metered 11KV feeders, 8 hours normal curtailment is being carried out. The T&D losses are still around 53% which clearly indicate that energy is not billed up to 100% even in metered areas, he added.
Sadhotra said that sometimes regular power supply gets affected due to break down and outage of Grid Stations and damages to the system network caused by natural calamities, vagaries of weather, failure of electrical equipment, adding that all such outages are attended on priority to ensure power supply to all affected areas.
G. N Monga and B. R. Kundal raised supplementary. Replying to another question of Syed Mohammad Rafiq Shah raised by Dr. Bashir Ahmed Veeri, Sadhotra said that the power infrastructure in District Kupwara is old, which requires maintenance and improvement. Minister informed that HT/LT network improvement scheme has been launched in the State for which an amount of Rs. 20 crore (Rs. 1 crore per district) has been allocated, of which Rs. 0.5 crore per district have been released so far during the current fiscal.
Sadhotra informed that the aim of the scheme was to replace the rotten poles, un-serviceable/ unauthorized conductors; replacement of un-authorized/ sub-standard line supports with standard poles, replacement of damaged LT cables of Distribution Transformers, replacement of damaged insulators and damaged earthing of Distribution Sub-Stations. Priority is accorded to vulnerable spots where distribution network poses risk to life and property.
As many as 38 Mohalla/ villages of Kupwara District have been taken up under the scheme during the year 2013-14, he maintained. Minister further informed that R-APDRP scheme has been sanctioned for 30 towns of the State for the areas having population 10,000 and above. He said Handwara and Kupwara towns are also covered under the programme with an estimated cost of Rs. 7.39 cores for each. The provision of Aerial Bunched Cables (ABC) and High Voltage Distribution System (DVDS) in R-APDRP shall help in revamping of distribution system in these areas, he maintained. Sadhotra said that the Electricity Tariff in J&K is being determined by Jammu and Kashmir State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JKSERC) which is an autonomous body established under J&K Electricity Act 2010. He said that the Commission fixes tariff of all consumer categories including domestic category in a transparent manner, adding that the monthly bills of electricity charges are issued to the consumers as per the existing electricity tariff approved by J&K SERC.
He further said that there are 17568 domestic, industrial and commercial consumers metered and about 356191 non- metered consumers of all categories in District Kupwara. In reply to another question by Naresh Gupta, Minister said that in view of the creation of new administrative units, respective Deputy Commissioners have already been advised to prepare plan for re-organization of the units (Proposed/fixed) on rational basis for public convenience and administrative viability.
Minister said that there are two Judicial District/Sessions Divisions in Revenue District Doda, of which one Headquartered at Bhaderwah, having jurisdiction in Civil and Criminal matters, triable before District Judge, in respect of Bhaderwah and Gandoh (Bhalessa) and the other headquartered at Doda having similar jurisdiction over Doda and Thathri. However, the Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Doda has Jurisdiction over entire District Doda under prevention of Corruption Act. |
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