The pre-implementation agreements (PIAs) signed by the government with independent power producers (IPPs) for execution of 15 hydroelectric projects, awarded recently through global bidding, indicate that generation will commence at the earliest only by 2021, provided all goes well.
All successful bidders who were awarded projects with an aggregate capacity of 1303.25 MW have deposited the firs
People in electricity-starved Jammu and Kashmir may have to wait for at least four years for the completion of the second phase of the 900-MW Baglihar hydroelectric project over the Chenab in Chanderkote.
The first phase having three turbines of 150-MW each started in 1999 and was commissioned in 2008.
Managing Director of the Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Corporation Shalin Kabra said
Pakistan and India on Thursday made no headway to resolve Wullar Barrage dispute as both sides were not ready to change their historical stance, informed sources told Business Recorder.
State Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, today, accepted the report of the Negotiating Committee and gave its nod for the preparation of fresh Detailed Project Report (DPR) of Sawalkote Hydroelectric Project, whose fate was hanging in balance for the past several decades.
The Cabinet also approved promotion of three IAS officers to the super time scale o
The work on 690 Mega Watts Ratle Hydroelectric Project in Kishtwar district will begin early next year as the M/s G V K Hydro Electric Project Pvt Ltd, which was allotted the project in tariff based bidding, has geared up the process of seeking clearances from different agencies.
Official sources said that M/s G V K Hydro Electric Project Pvt Ltd has engaged consultants for reviewing the Detail
Larsen & Toubro will execute the 420-MW Reoli-Dugli hydel project in the Chenab basins, the Himachal Pradesh cabinet decided today, ending a controversy that had seen the government once awarding the contract to L&T and then cancelling it, and the company moving court.
L&T had been at fourth place in the international bidding, but the top two later backed out .The government then chose to give
JAMMU, Jan 4: Minister for Health, Horticulture & Floriculture, Sham Lal Sharma has directed the officers of Flood Control Department to take effective measures for protecting right bank of river Chenab at Akhnoor from soil erosion due to floods.
The Minister was on an extensive tour of all the flood prone areas of Akhnoor to review pace of ongoing flood protection works along the right bank of
