Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation’s (UPPCL) chickens have come home to roost. With outstanding dues of R8,636 crore on July 5 — which the corporation says it has reduced to R4,500 crore now — the loss-making UPPCL finds it no longer has enough money to buy power from generating entities in the state.

Normally, these units should be able to sell this power outside the state, but with state-owned dispatch centres often not giving permission to do so, power capacity often gets wasted.

Lucknow Intended to be a growth engine for Uttar Pradesh, the R14,000-crore, six-lane, access-controlled Yamuna Expressway, originally planned to be thrown open to the public before the 2010 Commonwealth Games, is finally all dressed up and ready, but unfortunately has nowhere to go.

Almost two months after the project’s concessionaire, Jaypee Infratech, communicated to the state government that the expressway was complete, it is still awaiting the state government's nod to officially declare it open. This despite the soft-spoken Akhilesh Yadav, the state’s new chief minister, having said that he strongly believed that “if we can double the speed on the roads, it can triple the pace of our economy”.

Lucknow Almost five years of frosty relations between the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government gave way to new-found bonhomie on Monday when leaders of the Congress and the Samajwadi Party shared the dais at the foundation stone laying ceremony for the R 11,088-crore, 1980 mw power plant in the state.

The project, which is likely to usher in brighter days in the state in the coming years, is a 51:49% joint venture between Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) and Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam, and is to come up at Ghatampur in Kanpur district.

Lucknow In order to strengthen the power generation in the state, the Uttar Pradesh government is in talks with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for funding of its forthcoming 2x660 MW Obra C power plant in Sonebhadra. A JICA team was in Lucknow on Wednesday for preliminary survey of the project and spoke with senior officials in this regard, according to a state government official.

Lucknow Uttar Pradesh’s bleeding power sector can breathe a sigh of relief from the never-ending saga of resource crunch, pressure from financial institutions and day-to-day exercise of managing funds for virtually everything, thanks to the Centre’s approval in principle for a R15,000-crore financial restructuring plan spanned over a period of 10 years by a consortium of 21 banks, which would provide the loan amount over the next three years.

Lucknow The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday cleared a proposal to split the state into four, 11 years after the hill state of Uttarakhand was carved out of it.

Lucknow In a fresh war of words between the Centre and Uttar Pradesh, state chief minister Mayawati has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accusing his Cabinet colleague Jairam Ramesh of scor

This memorandum categorically states that the Bill is only driven by a desire to make land acquisition for industrialisation, while completely ignoring the larger picture of food security. “Though the Bill puts some checks on the acquisition of multi-cropped and irrigated land by saying that under no circumstances should multi-cropped and irrigated land be acquired, it fails to address the larger challenge of extensive diversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes and the consequent impact on the nation’s food security,” it states.

Climate Change ends up focusing on the energy sector and with India poised to grow exponentially in the coming decades, the need of the hour is not to abstain from using energy but to use it efficiently, so as to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Lucknow Stung by farmers’ agitations and repeated adverse court rulings on land acquisition, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to restructure its development projects by replacing land with