Haryana power utilities will spend Rs 239 crore for reforms in power sector in Gurgaon by 2011.

Haryana Power Utilities will spend Rs.239 crore by the year 2011 to initiate power reforms in Gurgaon district, an official spokesman said here on Saturday. He disclosed that under this plan, new sub-stations would be set up and the capacity of existing sub-stations would be augmented. Also, new transmission lines would be laid in a phased manner. He further disclosed that seven new sub-stations would be set up in Gurgaon during the current financial year at a cost of Rs.164.40 crore.

For the third day in a row Gurgaon continued to reel under an unprecedented water crisis caused by the discontinuation in the supply of water following a breach in the Gurgaon canal.

For thousands of people who commute between Delhi and Ghaziabad daily, the wait for an efficient and comfortable mode of transport will be over by September 2010.

The widening and strengthening of the Gurgaon-Alwar and Hodal-Nuh-Pataudi Patauda roads have been approved under the National Capital Region (NCR) scheme in order to create a sound network of roads in

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While the residents of plotted colonies have been left to their fate, those living in condominiums are relatively better off. These compact residential blocks mostly have round-the-clock power back-up. But this comes at a price. In swanky apartment complexes like Hamilton Court, Windsor Place and Regency Park-II, residents pays 55 paise more per unit of electricity than what the state-owned DHBVN charges i.e around Rs 4.5 per unit. It is besides the monthly maintenance charge that they have to cough up. So, on an average, each unit of electricity costs about Rs 9 and can even go up to 18 at some places. The generators, with a maximum capacity of 7 MW, normally supply between 3.5 MW and 4 MW daily. They consume about 2,400 litres of diesel everyday. It's the same story at Silver Oaks, another apartment complex.

With nearly all residential societies, malls, offices and homes surviving on generator sets in Gurgaon, serious air pollution is but only inevitable. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) sources, levels of particulate matter exceed prescribed limits for most of the day several times over in the city. An analysis in December 2005 revealed that against a prescribed limit of 80 micrograms/cubic metre, NO2 averaged 283 micrograms/cubic metre. PM10 was a whopping 721 micrograms/cubic metre against a limit of 100. The levels of CO shot up three times to 6,240 micrograms/cubic metre against the permissible limit of 2,000 in the evenings. The alarm bells started ringing then, and matters have only become worse since. According to CPCB, pollution from generator sets stands second only to vehicular pollution, and in a city like Gurgaon, which is completely generator-dependent, the situation is close to getting out of hand. Gensets emit dangerous gases like CO and NOx which have a terrible impact on health thanks to greater personal exposure levels.