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| Decision to save thousands of crores of peoples money, reduce T&D losses | | Govt restructuring insulation project in JK's power sector | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 29: The Jammu and Kashmir government while undoing the mistakes of the so called democratically elected governments in the state is reinitiating the Insulation project that will curtail the Transmission and Distribution losses in Jammu and Kashmir's power sector and save thousands of the crores of rupees of the state exchequer.
As per the official sources, the government at present is rethinking over the plan which it had mooted in the recent past under which the cables supplying power to JK households could be insulated.
In the past, the government announced to start the insulation project in Srinagar and Jammu cities in the firs6 phase and latter it could be developed into a mega plan.
Interestingly, The huge T&D losses since early 90s has affected power sector heavily and the Jammu and Kashmir as it is the only state in India, where about 70 percent energy is lost due to power pilferage and transmission and distribution losses.
Reportedly the transmission and distribution losses were highest (65.78) percent for 2009-10, 60.99 percent for 2010-11 and around 59.72 percent for last fiscal year.
The scheme will be implemented in two phases which will cover entire state.
For the first phase of the project, the Central government has sanctioned Rs.151.99 crores under R-APDRP while an amount of 1665.27 crores has been approved for the second phase of this vital project.
"The second phase will cover two main cities including Jammu and Srinagar for which the funds estimated at the cost of Rs. 52,89 crores have been approved," reads the document.
These schemes are proposed to be taken up under National Electricity Fund for which Rural Electrification Corporation is the nodal agency. Under this scheme 30 towns have been identified as project areas in J&K state with population of above 10,000 as per 2001 census
"For this purpose, the government has already taken a pilot exercise and some 30 towns have been identified as project areas in J&K, another 283 towns with population of over 4000 have also been identified that will be covered in the second phase. Phase -1 of 283 towns is to cost Rs. 171.61 crores and phase-2 will cost Rs. 1073.33 crores. These projects were proposed to be taken up under Phase-II of R-APDRP through a special dispensation which could not materialize," reads the document.
Further Phase -1 is to cover Ring Fencing, Feeder Metering, DT Metering, application of Information Technology and supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) /DMS in distribution sector while Phase-2 is aimed to strengthen Distribution System in identified project areas
"The Project will be a boom for the power sector of Jammu and Kashmir. What is interesting is that what past governments couldn't do in years is being done now in months," says an official privy to the development. |
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