Haryana: Rs 677 cr plan to boost power transmission

Chandigarh, Apr 30 (UNI) The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam has decided to strengthen the transmission and distribution systems in eleven districts at a cost of Rs 677.20 crore during the current financial year.

The districts to be covered under the scheme would be Panchkula, Ambala, Yamunanager, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat, Rohtak, Jhajjar and Jind, a Nigam spokesman said.

He said a sum of Rs 257 crore would be spent on release of new connections to the people living below poverty line and set up 11 KV lines, low tension lines and erection of new lines with Aerial Bunched Cable (ABC), installation of new distribution transformers with meters.

Besides, it had been planned to segregate the load of 725 existing 11 KV feeders supplying power to rural areas at a cost of Rs 218 crore. This would benefit 3,619 villages and the work would be completed during the current financial year.

He said Rs 74 crore had been earmarked for setting up of new 33 KV sub-stations, augment capacity of the existing sub-stations, erection of new 33 KV lines and providing High Tension capacitors.

The Nigam had also planned to supply power to consumers through underground transmission and distribution network in Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) sectors for which Rs 54 crore have been earmarked.

Apart from this, the Nigam had decided to erect ABC lines in future HUDA sectors and supply power through high voltage distribution system. A pilot project to supply electricity through underground system has been started in Rohtak town at a cost of Rs 18 crore.

Referring to erection of high voltage and low voltage distribution systems, the spokesman said the work would be completed at a cost of Rs 48 crore in 540 urban colonies and villages during 2007-08.

The Nigam has also planned to bifurcate or trifurcate lengthy and heavily overloaded feeders in urban and rural areas under the NABARD schemes at a cost of Rs three crore, he added.

UNI