Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that there would be dramatic change in power scenario after October as Uttar Pradesh would have enough electricity for rural and urban areas as well as for industry and farm sector.
“The power department has been asked to complete on going projects to bring a qualitative change in the power consumption as well as availability. Officials have also been asked to prepare projects keeping in mind the future requirement of electricity,” Yadav said in a statement issued here on Thursday.
He said that Samajwadi Party Government is committed to provide minimum 16 hour electricity in rural areas, 20 hour power in at tehsil level, 22 hours at district headquarters and 24 hours at metro cities by October this year.
“To meet this target Government has initiated projects to increase power generation and has spruced up transmission and distribution system. This year 32 sub-stations have been set up across the state that will facilitate supply of quality electricity with minimum transmission loss,” Chief Minister said.
Chief Minister even said that in January and February this year six sub-stations were made operational. One of them is 220 KV sub-station in Pratapgarh. Besides 132 KV sub-stations were set up in Sitapur, Hardoi, Chandauli, Mahoba and Kanpur (dehat), he said.
“These sub-stations will help consumers to get quality electricity. There would not be frequent power cut now in these areas and incidents of low voltage will also be low,” Yadav said.
Many power projects are likely to be commissioned by December 2016. Officials say that the first unit of the 1,980 mw Bara thermal power project of Jaypee Infratech is expected to be commissioned by end June or July and two more units are expected to start operations by April 2016.
The state sector too will contribute to the supply of power with both units of the 1,000 mw Anpara D project becoming operational by August and the Meja 660x 2 joint venture project also starting operations by March 2017. By early 2017, UP would be generating extra 6,000 mw of power
“Once all these projects become operational it should bring to an end a period of power scarcity and not compel the state to overdraw from the grid,” the official said.
At present UP generates around 3600 MW of electricity and purchase the rest of electricity from central pool to meet its requirement.