The Haryana Cabinet has approved a pilot project for providing safe drinking water based on reverse osmosis and related technologies in select water quality affected villages in the Public-NGO-Community Mode through the Naandi Foundation of Hyderabad.
Announcing this after the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda disclosed that 100 villages would be taken up in the affected districts including Mewat, Mahendergarh, Jhajjar and Kaithal.
With the aim of augmenting availability of electricity in Haryana, the state government is undertaking short, medium and long term measures to be self-reliant in power within the next few years. These include commissioning of its three major thermal power projects at Yamuna Nagar, Jhajjar and Hisar which will generate about 3,300 mw of electricity; contracting power from various projects outside the state for 4,000 mw and generating power through bidding process under case I of tariff policy to the tune of 2,000 mw.
Despite no budget allocation for the Bamnauli power project in the current financial year 2010-2011, the Delhi Government is all set to appoint NTPC as Project Management Consultant for the Pragati Power Project phase II (750 mw-800 mw) at Bamnauli.
The first 500 MW unit of Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Jhajjar, Haryana, has been commissioned after achieving full load on October 31, 2010.
The unit has achieved full load in 39 months and 25 days from the date of investment approval, a new record for Greenfield projects.
The 1,500 MW [3x500 MW] project is being set up by Aravali Power Company Private Limited, a joint ventur
Power transmission in the state has entered a new phase with everything ready for the first-ever transmission project in the country with viability gap funding (VGF) by the central government.
The project will be the first in Haryana with VGF in the public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda lit the boiler of the 600-mega watt Unit-2 of the 1,200-MW Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Project at Khedal on the Hisar-Chandigarh highway.
At the time of Independence, availability of power was confined to a few urban and industrial pockets of Haryana and its villages were engulfed in darkness. However, during the Congress regime in 1970, Haryana became the first state in the country to provide electricity to hundred per cent of its villages.
