PSPCL ACHIEVES RECORD POWER SUPPLY OF 3029 L UNITS
Patiala: Punjab State Power Corporation Limited catered the record power supply of 3029 lakh units and also touched maximum demand of 13,161 MW on June 25, CMD A.Venu Prasad said on Saturday. He said the previous record of power supply was 3018 lakh units on 2nd July, 2020. He said that PSPCL has purchased 216 lakh Units with 929 MW of power from power exchange to meet this demand, adding that elaborate arrangements upto 13,700 MW of power for the state has been made. He said that PSPCL has provided 8 hours uninterrupted supply in all 3 groups of agriculture consumers of all distribution zones. More than 8 hours supply was provided to Amritsar, Sangrur, Bathinda and Faridkot districts.
Mera Pani Meri Virasat: Registration extended
Chandigarh: Haryana Government will provide incentives on sowing water-saving crops instead of paddy under the Crop Diversification Scheme this year. Haryana Chief Minister, . Manohar Lal has given approval to implement ‘Mera Pani Meri Virasat Yojana’ for Kharif-2021 under crop diversification. Presiding over a meeting of the officers of Agriculture Department, State Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister, JP Dalal said that instead of paddy, farmers should be motivated to sow alternative crops. He said that this scheme will be implemented in the whole state and under this scheme, farmers are given option to grow alternative crops other than paddy like (cotton, maize, Pulses, groundnut, sesame, guar, castor, vegetables and fruits). For this an incentive amount of Rs. 7,000 per acre will be given. The farmer who grow fodder instead of paddy or keep their fields vacant, they will also get the benefit of this scheme. To take advantage of this scheme, interested farmers will have to register on ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’ Portal. Earlier the last date for registration was fixed as 25th June, now it has been extended to 15 July.
Revenue records can be viewed online
Chandigarh: Additional Chief Secretary and Financial Commissioner, Revenue & Disaster Management and Consolidation Department, Sanjeev Kaushal has said that modern revenue record rooms will be ready in the next two months at all district headquarters of the state. He said that the work of digitising the age-old revenue records in the State is going on very fast and now soon these records will be easily available at the click of the mouse whereas earlier it used to take a lot of time to view and trace these records.