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Early Times Report
Jammu, May 1: While the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is plunged into unprecedented power and water crises, the administration is brazenly indulged in patting its own back for improving power generation in J&K.
On Saturday the J&K issued a length handout under the title ‘Badalta Jammu Kashmir’. In this handout, the J&K government claimed to fulfill the dreams of the 1.25 crore residents by providing adequate power.
“In the last 70 years, J&K had been able to harness only 3500 MW of power generation. Now the generation capacity is set to be doubled in 3 years and tripled in 7 years", the government claimed.
“Combined with the huge leap in power transmission capacity, with 150% leap between 2019 to 2021, and reforms in power distribution, the goal of a light to every home' is not a distant dream anymore”, the government claims. This paradigm shift in the growth trajectory of J&K is a result of several governances and institutional reforms coupled with the historic devolution of powers to local bodies. Reinforcing the trust of the masses in the capacity and efficiency of government institutions forms the cornerstone of J&k's growth story. Citizen-centric governance and accountability, discernible from these transformative changes, is an apt tribute to the epithet 'Badalta Jammu Kashmir'.
Sources said that the government was reluctant to purchase electricity from outside Jammu and Kashmir at exorbitant rates against the backdrop of a whopping annual revenue loss of over Rs 3,400 crore in the power sector.
The average electricity demand of Jammu and Kashmir is 2,400 MW while the UT administration claims to have been supplying 2,061 MW, registering a shortfall of 339 MW. |
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