Minister for Power and New & Renewable Energy Sources, Punjab, Gurpreet Singh Kangar here on Monday handed over appointment letters on compassionate ground to 153 dependents of those employees of PSPCl who had died in service.
Kangar said that as per Punjab Government’s commitment of ‘A job for each home’, appointment letters for 1889 different posts in PSPCl have been issued so far while 300 more appointment letters are in pipeline. He added that approval has been given and action started for fresh recruitment at 488 posts in PSPCl. “More jobs would be created in future as well”, he said.
The minister said that in spite of State’s power demand touching a record high of 12556 MW and the electricity consumption reaching 2745 lakh units, farmers are being supplied uninterrupted 8 hours power daily and no category of electricity consumers is facing any power cut. For this, he appreciated the CMD of PSPCl, Baldev Singh Sra and his team.
Sra said that for high-quality power supply in Punjab, action has been started to install new 800 MW Thermal Plant Units with supercritical technology at Ropar. He said that Rs 330 crore would be spent on 105 rural towns with population more than 5000, so that aggregate technical and commercial losses come down.
The CMD said an amount of Rs. 252.06 Crore has been approved for feeder segregation and up-gradation of power supply to rural consumers in 20 districts. He added that up to March 31, next year, old electricity appliances would be replaced with 50 lakh lED lamps, 1 lakh high-efficiency fans and 50 thousand lED tube lights.