Rajasthan gets priority in rural electrification
The Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Yojna (RGREY)would be taken to all districts of Rajasthan so that villagers could have power for domestic and agricultural use, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Tuesday.
By PTI |
KOTA: The Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Yojna (RGREY)would be taken to all districts of Rajasthan so that villagers could have power for domestic and agricultural use, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Tuesday.
The RGREY, which was underway in a few districts now would be expanded in the state for betterment of the people, said the minister after laying the foundation stone for the VII unit of 195 MW Kota super thermal power station.
Hailing the state government's energy plants and generation, the minister said Rajasthan was among a few other states having a plant load factor upto 90 per cent from each generating unit.
Shinde assured the chief minister that he would ensure the state got its full share of power per unit from the central power grids.
On a suggestion to set up a plant like the Rawatbhata atomic power station in Banswara, Shinde said the Centre would welcome any such proposal for grant on the nuclear energy based generation unit, if infrastructure including the land was provided for the purpose.
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He also asked the Rajasthan government to furnish another proposal on wind energy based plans in western districts of Jaisalmer and Barmer.The minister said the coal block quota would be maintained for the state, and there would be no discrimination.
Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on the occassion announced that all villages would have electricity connections by 2009. She claimed that the state had achieved 131 per cent targets in power section under the 10th Five Year Plan.
State power minister G S Khinvsar said the seventh unit would be readied at a cost of Rs 680 crores by November 2008.
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