50 lakh people affected by
technical snag in northern grid
Tahir Mushtaq
JAMMU, July 30: Nearly 50 lakh people in ten districts of Jammu were affected by the sudden in the Northern Grid station last night.
According to officials after the maximum part of the state depends upon the supply coming from Northern Grid and after the fault occurred there were power cuts around 9 states of the country.
It is pertinent to mention here that from the past long time the city is facing an unprecedented power crisis from the past long time and now this major fault in the grid station make people suffered the whole night.
Across the state most of the people are literally sleepless during last night, as they faced long power shutdown.
Pertinently the department is blaming the withdrawal of 152 MW of power by Northern Grid for the crisis and power theft as major reason for the present mess.
When contacted Minister for Power, Shabir Ahmed Khan said after the fault arise in the grid state the department manage to take help from the local grid station for continues power supply to the affected areas of the state.
Khan further said that the department is on work to sort out the problem very shortly the power supply from the Northern Gird station starts.
Northern Grid (NG) had already cut down 152 MW of power to the electricity starved state about a month back and reprimanded Power Development Department (PDD) for its failure to improve its distribution system and curtail Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses which have reached alarming 63 per cent.
While the peak summer season has pushed up the power consumption to 2300 MW across Jammu and Kashmir, the PDD at the moment is able to provide only 1500 MW from all its sources. 600-700 MW to Jammu region and 700 to 800 MW to Kashmir region.
However a senior officer from PDD said that its not only that extra consumption of power which has created power crisis in the state, but J&K is having one of the highest Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses in the country and most of the electricity is lost during distribution part.
T&D losses have shown an substantial increase in past decade. The losses have increased from 46.98 % in 2005-06 to 62.31 % in the financial year 2010-11, with State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) blaming it mostly on the theft by the consumers and failure of department to take effective steps.
Tahir Mushtaq
JAMMU, July 30: Nearly 50 lakh people in ten districts of Jammu were affected by the sudden in the Northern Grid station last night.
According to officials after the maximum part of the state depends upon the supply coming from Northern Grid and after the fault occurred there were power cuts around 9 states of the country.
It is pertinent to mention here that from the past long time the city is facing an unprecedented power crisis from the past long time and now this major fault in the grid station make people suffered the whole night.
Across the state most of the people are literally sleepless during last night, as they faced long power shutdown.
Pertinently the department is blaming the withdrawal of 152 MW of power by Northern Grid for the crisis and power theft as major reason for the present mess.
When contacted Minister for Power, Shabir Ahmed Khan said after the fault arise in the grid state the department manage to take help from the local grid station for continues power supply to the affected areas of the state.
Khan further said that the department is on work to sort out the problem very shortly the power supply from the Northern Gird station starts.
Northern Grid (NG) had already cut down 152 MW of power to the electricity starved state about a month back and reprimanded Power Development Department (PDD) for its failure to improve its distribution system and curtail Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses which have reached alarming 63 per cent.
While the peak summer season has pushed up the power consumption to 2300 MW across Jammu and Kashmir, the PDD at the moment is able to provide only 1500 MW from all its sources. 600-700 MW to Jammu region and 700 to 800 MW to Kashmir region.
However a senior officer from PDD said that its not only that extra consumption of power which has created power crisis in the state, but J&K is having one of the highest Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses in the country and most of the electricity is lost during distribution part.
T&D losses have shown an substantial increase in past decade. The losses have increased from 46.98 % in 2005-06 to 62.31 % in the financial year 2010-11, with State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) blaming it mostly on the theft by the consumers and failure of department to take effective steps.
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