Surjewala asks public not to damage power houses

Chandigarh, Sep 9 (UNI) Haryana Power Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala has urged the people not to indulge in nefarious activities such as damaging power houses and other electrical installations and rise above party politics for the progress of the state.

This assertion was made by Mr Surjewala while addressing a largely attended public meeting after inaugurating a 132 KV substation at village Dhanauri which had been constructed by the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN).

Mr Surjewala said that the Hooda led Government had initiated a number of schemes for power generating and to add 5000 MW of additional power in power kitty during next three years. The State would get additional 144 lakh units of electricity daily after commissioning of two units of upcoming Thermal Power Station Yamunanagar by February 2008, he added.

He said that during the previous regime, no sincere efforts have been made to generate more power and could not maintain the electricity system properly as a result of which the gap of demand and supply had widened. The present government had fixed a target to increase the availability of electricity by 18 per cent keeping in view the rapid load growth in the state due to vast industrialization, urbanization and releasing of new tubewells connection.

Mr Surjewala stressed the need that the major challenge before the government was to minimise the mismatch between the actual demand and availability of power for which the transmission and distribution network was also being strengthened in planned and fazed manner. The construction work of 1200 MW Rajiv Gandhi Thermal power station in village Khedar near Hisar had also been speed up and would be commissioned in 2009, he added.

The Power Minister announced that the existing 33 KV substation at Dhanauri would also function in the same way and the village would have two substations. Not only this, the existing capacity of 132 KV substation Dhanauri would be augmented by installing another 20 or 25 MVA transformer for which a sum of Rs 2.5 crore would be spent.

Mr Surjewala said that all possible efforts would be made to supply uninterrupted quality power to the consumers of the State.

The new substation would benefit 4100 consumers of the area including 1418 tubewell consumers of six villages.

UNI