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| Solar energy programme to be encouraged in J&K | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 3:Following expert report indicating that the scope for setting up hydel power projects in remote and hilly areas in Jammu and Kashmir was quite limited, the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, has plans for securing technical and financial assistance from Germany for expanding the base of solar energy system not only in the border state but in the entire country. Official sources said that the issue of entering into an agreement bet ween India and Germany on solar energy development had been discussed by Dr Abdullah with a German delegation that had visit ed New Delhi not long ago. Sources said that experts have conveyed to Dr Abdullah that there were more than 400 villages in Jammu and Kashmir where people had been deprived of uninterrupted power supply. In these villages people banked on kerosene oil for lights in their houses. They said that the recurring power shortage had not allowed people of these villages to enjoy the benefit of assured power supply from various hydel projects.
It is in this context Farooq Abdullah was exploring the possibility of providing technical and financial assistance to Government agencies in these remote rural areas for installing solar energy systems.
In addition to this the Ministry for New and Renewable Energy was spending several hundred crores of rupees on establishing solar energy plants in the rural belts of Jammu Kashmir, including Ladakh, remote hilly belts in Himachal an Uttar Pradesh.
The Ministry is helping Jammu Kashmir Government in establishing solar energy system in most of the religious shrines, historic places, tourist resorts, hospitals, medical colleges. This step was being taken to escape the ordeal the Government usually faced in setting up hydel power projects when Pakistan raised one objection or the other in the name of violation of Indus Water Treaty.
This is what India had to face during the completion of Dul Hasti, Bhaglihar and now Kishenganga power projects
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