POWER PLANT UNIT 3 OPENED
TALKING BIG Says union power ministry has approved a scheme for uninterrupted power supply to 36 towns of state
CHANDIGARH: Two more units of 66 MW each will be set up at Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Plant at Jaharli in Jhajjar district.
CHANDIGARH: Union minister of state ( MoS) for power, Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said two more units of 660 MW each would be set up at Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Plant ( IGSTPP) at Jharli in Haryana’s Jhajjar district.
Scindia stated this after starting commercial operations of the third 500-MW unit of IGSTPP project at Jharli on Friday. However, the unit was shut down by the evening. Haryana power officials said the unit was shut as there was low demand for power.
The first unit of this 3X 500 MW plant had become operational in March 2011, while the second unit started functioning in April 2012.
Appreciating Haryana’s decision of setting up four new power projects in the state, the MoS said under the Rajiv Gandhi Gram Vidyutikaran Yojana, nearly 2.5 lakh people of 17 districts of the state would be benefited.
The scheme involved an investment of Rs 300 crore. He said schemes costing about Rs 10,000 crore had already been implemented in Haryana by the union power ministry. Scindia said a scheme worth Rs 840 crore had been approved by the union power ministry to ensure uninterrupted power supply to 36 towns of the state.
An official spokesperson said IGSTPP at Jharli had been set up by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and the project was a joint venture of the Haryana and Delhi governments.
Chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that in 2005, the state had only one power plant in Panipat. “The state government has set up four new power plants and the power generation capacity of the state has gone up from 1,587 MW to 5,800 MW. The power generation capacity of the state from all sources has enhanced from 4,033 MW to 9,839 MW,” Hooda said.
Later in Bhiwani, Scindia said new power lines of 6,000 MW capacity would be laid between Champa in Chhattisgarh to Kurukshetra in Haryana at a cost of Rs 3,500 crore. “Also, new power projects costing Rs 22,000 crore are being set up in Haryana,” he siad.
Scindia was speaking after dedicating a 750-KV sub-station set up by the Power Grid Corporation of India at Dhana Narsan in Bhiwani on Friday.
A spokesperson for the power grid said Haryana was one of the major constituents of the northern region.
“As per the 18th Electric Power Survey of CEA, the power demand of the state would be about 10,270 MW by 2016-17 and would increase to about 14,240 MW by 2021-22. With increase in quantum of power demand, the quantum of power to be supplied from the Grid would also increase. To facilitate above power transfer, the 765-KV substation has been established,” the spokesperson added.