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Agencies
New Delhi, Aug 3: Faced with acute power shortage, Jammu and Kashmir has most of its electricity problems home grown as transmission and distribution losses in the state have reached second highest in the country.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah recently admitted that the power theft is one of the major reasons for huge transmission and distribution losses in the state, which have crossed 60 per cent, and also called upon consumers to change their mindset for minimising the same.
Expressing concern over discomfort caused to people over large-scale power theft, the Chief Minister said two pilot projects would be started soon to check the pilferage of electricity by installing SIM-activated electronic meters in the state.
Transmission and distribution losses are the losses of electricity incurred from the source of production to the destination of consumer. Nearly 33 per cent electricity generated is lost on an average in the country because of thefts, pilferage and transmission faults with Manipur topping with a whopping 94 percent in 2006-2007 and Jammu and Kashmir following with 67 per cent, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.
Minister of State for Power Bharatsinh Solanki said in a written reply that theft of electricity is one of the major contributing factors impacting the financial health of power utilities and growth of power sector in the country.
This also contributed to poor quality of power supply, frequent load-shedding and unscheduled outages, he said.
The Minister said the financial health of power utilities was also a criteria for assessing the viability of new investment.
Replying to another question, the Minister said some thermal power plants of the NTPC were reportedly running short of coal and coal stock at some including Farakka, Kahalgaon, Talcher and Sipat had depleted.
The main reason for shortage of coal was inadequate availability of indigenous coal, he said, adding that for 2009-2010, against the total requirement of 404 Million Tonne (MT), availability of coal from Coal India Ltd. was 313 MT.
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