Jharkhand Agriculture Department has given its nod to Jharkhand Urja Vikas Nigam ltd (JUVNl) to set up 5,000 KVA mini-power grid sub-station over six acre near Baliguma on NH-33. land acquisition process will be completed soon. The construction of this sub-station will start once the formalities for land acquisition are completed.
State Agriculture Minister Banna Gupta on Saturday said that his department has given the required go-ahead and in order to expedite the process the deputy commissioner was also directed to submit sketches and land papers of six acre land plot at Baliguma near district agriculture office to Jharkhand Urja Vikas Nigam limited for initiating process of installation of 100 MW grid to solve power woes in Mango and Jamshedpur.
“The power crisis in Mango and its adjoining areas serviced by the Jharkhand Urja Vikas Nigam limited ( JUVNl) will be over soon. Our city has demand 75 MW electricity but it receives only 50 MW. We want to make the power supply surplus”, noted Gupta.
The Singhbhum unit of JUVNl had zeroed in on the land for setting up a 5,000 KVA mini power grid sub-station near Baliguma on the National Highway-33, which will supply power to the entire Mango area and its adjoining areas catering to a population of over two lakh.
JUVNl’s superintending engineer R J Singh also said that they have identified about six acres of land for the power project which will involve investment close to Rs 50 lakh.
The equipment for the grid sub-station has been already procured. Once the formalities for acquiring the land get completed the construction work of the sub-station will begin. Singh said the construction of the power grid sub-station would improve power supply. The existing transformers at Mango trip frequently because of the excess load. But, once the new power grid sub-station is functional, it will help in distributing the load properly.