Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Thursday announced to issue demand notices for about 44,000 pending tube-well connections which would be issued in the next six months.
Addressing a news conference here, he said that a target has been set to issue 50,000 new solar energy connections of which tenders have been floated for 15,000 connections. The use of solar energy in tube wells reduces power consumption by 30 per cent, he added.
Replying to a question, the Chief Minister said that the 468 agricultural tube wells falling under Vayama Feeder of Karnal block and Saspur Feeder of Yamunanagar block would be changed into solar energy at an estimated cost of about Rs 25 crore.
Manohar Lal said farmers would be given solar energy unit and they would utilize the energy generated during day time and incentive amounting to Re one per unit would be given to farmer for maintenance purpose. The additional power would be sold to power grid. Farmers are being encouraged to adopt Micro Irrigation, he added.
He said that the present State Government has improved the losses being caused by monthly payment of Rs 30 crore to Power Grid for Inter-State Transmission and saved about Rs 300 crore by National Thermal Power Project at Jhajjar and pending cases of inter-state transmission payment amounting to about Rs 1120 crore has so far been sent to the power grid.