Warning the power officials that any laxity in facilitating smooth power supply to the public would not be tolerated at any cost, chief secretary, Alok Ranjan, directed them to provide feeder-wise information on power supply for ensuring supply according to the laid schedule.
He asked for the purchase of power as per the rules to make sure that residents of state get the power supply according to the stipulated schedule.
Chairing a meeting on power situation with officials of energy department here on Saturday morning, Ranjan instructed for prompt repairing of defective transformers. He said that it was the duty of power officials to make sure that State’s residents should be supplied with electricity as per the fixed schedule under all circumstances.
He also issued directions for supply schedule to be framed in a way that enabled proper water-supply and undisturbed sleep to residents at night. He asked for all thermal and hydro-electric power generation units to be run on full capacity. There should not be any breakdown down during the day. He said that efforts should be made to augment the availability of electricity through other sources also and power should be purchased from energy exchange as per the requirement. Principal Secretary, Energy, Sanjay Agarwal, who was also present in the meeting claimed that in view of the power availability and with the objective of ensuring electricity supply, schedule had been framed for supplying electricity for 15-24 hours in towns and 10 hours in rural areas.
He said that if more power was available, then supply hours would be increased. New schedules are being issued from Saturday. According to this schedule, now rural areas would get electricity from 4 AM to 9 PM, and there would be no load shedding after 11 or 12 at night in district-level towns and big towns. Managing Director, UP Power Corporation, A P Mishra informed that Anpara-D had been provided with start-up power, now the 500 Mw unit would start power generation in 3-4 months. A 45 Mw machine of Bajaj would start generation from tonight. He informed that from today, procurement of 50 Mw power from Meghalaya had been fixed. The meeting was also attended by Chairman & MD of UPRVUNl, Kamran Rizwi along with other senior officials.