Power Ministry urges World Bank for Rs 11,348.5 crore aid for power projects

20 Jun 2011 Evaluate

In order to set up an ambitious project of transmission and distribution of electricity among the eight northeastern states, the union ministry of power has submitted the Rs 11,348.5 crore proposal or $2.5 billion to the World Bank, urging it to fund the power projects. The North Eastern Council (NEC) members also discussed the power scenario, under-construction projects and future electricity generation plan in the northeastern region at the two day NEC meeting held on June 16 - 17, chaired by chairman and Union Minister of Development of North Eastern Region BK Handique and attended by all the eight chief ministers from the region.

According to the press release issued NEC, 'the northeastern states, mainly Arunachal Pradesh, have the potentiality to generate 63,257MW hydro electricity. The biggest hydro-electric plant, Lower Subansiri, in Arunachal Pradesh with a capacity of 2,000 MW is scheduled to be completed between 2013-2015'. The press note also underscored that the first unit of gas-based Palatana power project in southern Tripura is scheduled to be completed in November 2011 and the second by March 2012. The state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is commissioning its first ever 726MW capacity commercial power project at a cost of Rs 9,000 crore at Palatana, 60 km south of Tripura capital Agartala, the release said.

The presser stated that 433 km of road, at an estimated cost of Rs 1,353 crore, in six states of the northeastern region would be upgraded with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan. The NEC, constituted in 1971, is a regional planning and execution agency for overall development of the northeastern states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

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