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| After second corrupt ranking, NRPC dubs J&K power department main defaulter | | Outstanding goes above Rs 400 crores | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Dec 27: After being rated as second most corrupt state in the country, J&K has got another feather in the cap. Northern Region Power Committee (NRPC) has dubbed it as main defaulter among nine states of northern India for non-payment of outstanding reactive energy charges.
NRPC has stated that J&K is main defaulting constituent and outstanding reactive energy charges (Principal amount) against J&K was Rs 14.50 crore during current financial year 2010-11. NRPC further stated that in addition to outstanding during current financial year, Power Development Department (JKPDD) has pending outstanding reactive energy charges (principal amount) of Rs. 66.60 crore and interest of Rs. 40.48 crore upto the end of financial year 2010-11.
NRPC has stressed that Jammu and Kashmir has not been paying the outstanding amount and hence, over a period of time, the amount has risen to over 120 crores. It has informed that as on September 30, 2011, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has to pay Rs. 267.24 crore as union of India charges. This includes interest on delayed payment of union charges.
Power Grid has projected outstanding dues in respect of JKPDD at Rs. 97 Crore and outstanding dues of more than 60 days at Rs. 59 Crore. NHPC too has informed NRPC that J&K has to pay it Rs. 120 crore. During the meeting of NRPC, representative of J&K Development Commissioner (Power) Manzoor Salroo and DGM Iftikhar Kakroo stated that finance department was of the view that they would be making regular payments and thus there was no requirement of opening irrevocable letter of credit (LC).
Northern Regional Load Dispatch Center (NRLDC) has raised bills amounting to Rs 219.35 lakh and asked J&K to make payments within shortest possible time. To this, representative of PDD stated that certain payments which were made during period from October-2010 to August-2011 had not been reflected in the outstanding amount. He assured that outstanding fee and charges would be liquidated shortly.
The two representatives apart from debating the default stated that the power requirement of J&K was increasing and their own generation as well as entitlements from the grid was decreasing causing huge shortage in the state. Representative of Delhi Transco Limited (DTL) stated that they had offered the surplus power from Jhajjar Thermal Power Station and other thermal power stations to J&K.
He suggested that J&K should enter in to short term agreement for purchase of power from DTL instead of continued over drawl from the grid. On this, Chairman of Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) of NRPC advised J&K to make arrangements for bilateral purchase of power. In respect of frequent decrease/ variations in entitlements during the day for J&K from the grid, representative of NRLDC intimated that J&K was having major shares in hydro stations and the schedule of hydro generation varied widely during the day leading to variation in entitlement. He advised J&K to tie up power from thermal stations to overcome this problem. |
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