The Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company (CSPDC) has set a target of electrifying 185 villages in the interior areas of this tribal dominated and insurgency affected district under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Project during the current financial year.
The CSPDC has targetted to illuminate houses of 7,813 BPl families under the project out of which the work of intensive electrification had already been completed in a total of 98 villages with the illumination of around 2000 homes in the targeted villages.
Under the project, the CSPDC has also targetted to electrify educational institutions in the district which do not receive any power supply. Moreover, there are a total of 61 industrial connections , the numbers of which would be enhanced during the coming days, an official release here stated. Moreover, there are plans to electrify a total of 60 new irrigation tubewells under the small irrigation projects. The CSPDC had also been providing new domestic power connections in the interiors regions of the district while keeping in mind the rise in demand for such connections raised by domestic consumers.
The CSPDC has already established two ‘capacitor banks’ in the interior regions of the district to tide over the problem of low voltage. At the same time, under an 'Integrated Action Plan', work for establishment of three new transformers besides extension of the power line had been approved in the Narayanpur district headquarters.
The CSPDC had been according top priority to electrifying educational institutions, ashrams and hostels in the district. On the irrigation front, a total of 152 tubewells of farmers had so far been electrified in the district.