Major districts of the State plunged into darkness on Thursday night after three units of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) at Bokaro Thermal were closed down following the directives of Bermo civil SDO Bhunesh Pratap Singh over charges of pollution.
The power generation that dipped by more than 24 hours, was unexpected to normalise in another 48 hours. While emergency supplies to the railways, coal mines and the industries at Bokaro, Bermo, Dhanbad, Giridih and Hazaribagh were remained maintained, residents faced the heat and even water supplies were also disrupted in many places, including Bermo, Dhanbad and Giridih, as power cuts stretched from 10 to 14 hours.
As per available information from DVC, units no — 2 of DVC at Bokaro Thermal is lying closed since Thursday evening under the strict ordered of the Bermo SDM, Bhunesh Pratap Singh, served a noticed to the management ordering it to control pollution with immediate effect. However SDM has blamed the DVC management to flow highly polluted water in river Konar. While DVC Bokaro thermal Chief Engineer &project head Pramod Kumar said that the work is going on after some time as the pond was full of ash and water started overflowing. This also affected the sides of the pond s as a result the water started overflowing. However the DVC management dismissed the charges of SDM, it as a minor damage and claimed that the leakage would be patched up. While the SDM said due to lake of regular drainage of water from the pond the over flowing polluted water mixed with the river Konar thus polluting the river Konar flows into Damodar, latter’s water was also polluted.
Sources said the power generation at the BTPS has come down to zero as two of its production units closed down due to technical snag ,causing loss of crores of rupees to the DVC’s exchequer. BTPS ,a units of the DVC, is the back bone of the DVC power production. It has three units which produce 630MW (210x30) electricity. A report in this regard has been sent to DVC chairman by the BTPS management.