Madhya Pradesh aims at 8170 MW power capacity for 2008-09

BHOPAL: Effective measures taken since last four years to improve power transmission system has resulted in increased transmission capacity in Madhya Pradesh.

The consolidation in transmission system has been possible due to priorities set by the state government and their effective implementation, an official release said on Tuesday.

As a result, the transmission capacity rose to 6493 MW in 2006-07 compared to 3890 megawatts in the year 2002-03.
Now the state government has set a target of 8170 MW transmission capacity for the year 2008-09.

Besides, during the last four years 41 sub-stations were set up in the state as compared to just 27 in the ten-year period ending 2003.

One of the examples of transmitting power to consumers with high quality is that during the last three years 3611 circuit kilometres of transmission lines of different capacities have been set up.

These include 400 KV, 200 KV and 132 KV transmission lines while during the ten years period upto 2003, only 3044 circuit kilometres of transmission lines could be set up.

Not only this, but during the last four years capacity of transformers at high-tension sub-stations has been increased significantly resulting in improving of transmission capacity.