Facing criticism over poor power scenario the state government has decided to take the help of social media to apprise people of the current power situation in the state.
This was also done to put pressure on Central Government that has been saying that UP was being given additional electricity. To start with on Sunday the UP government informed that total shortfall of power was 1893 MW and five thermal units were not working for various reasons including paucity of coal. This has resulted in a shortfall of 1055 MW of electricity.
The moves comes after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced that he will put all the details on the social media and tweet about the daily power situation in the state.
“The Uttar Pradesh is facing power problem because of fault of others. We are not getting good quality coal and required amount of electricity from the central pool. Poll should know this. Therefore, the government will put up all the information on the public domain,” he said.
A tweet from Government of UP says that total net allocation of power from central sector (including NTPC) is 5005 MW. The total state generation is 3112 MW and total shortfall of power in the state is 1893 MW. Power shortfall because of non-operation of state run power projects is 1055 MW.
The projects which are not working because of different reasons are: Anpara-4- 500mw, Parichha 5-250mw, Obra-1-40mw, BEPl-45mw,Tanda (NTPC)1&2 110 MW.
“We have ensured that officials in Central Government also could see these tweets because the persons who matter in the Center has been tagged with these tweets,” a senior official responsible for these tweets told The Pioneer on Sunday.He said there will be regular updates so that people could know the truth.