UP to take steps to improve power situation
The Uttar Pradesh government has chalked out an ambitious plan to increase the power production by 10,000 MW within four years, state Power Minister Ramveer Upadhyaya has said.
By PTI |
MUMBAI: The Uttar Pradesh government has chalked out an ambitious plan to increase the power production by 10,000 MW within four years, state Power Minister Ramveer Upadhyaya has said.
He said government was working on plans to meet the shortage of power and to make the state self reliant in power production.
"The foundation stone of two thermal power units, one at Harduaganj and other at Pariccha would be laid by UP Chief Minister Mayavati within this month," Upadhyaya said.
The capacity of each power unit, to be developed by BHEL, would be 500MW, he said.
Upadhyaya said another 1000 MW power unit would be set up at Anpara in private sector, he said while talking to reporters after conducting a raid to check power theft here on Sunday night.
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He said Chief Minister Mayavati will inaugurate a 210 MW power production unit in Pariccha soon. The foundation stone of the unit was laid by Mayawati in 2002, he said."To meet the shortage, the state has to take 3500 MW of power from center at present," he said.
Earlier the minister along with Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Managing Director Kripal Singh raided six factories, nursing homes and institutes here and detected power theft to the tune of 30 lakh.
No FIR was registered against the parties as they paid compounding charges, Kripal Singh said.
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