To cope with the power shortage in the state, the Centre has decided to set up a 1,000 MW power generation station in Pathankot in Punjab.
Addressing a function organised by the Pradesh Congress Committee in connection with the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi here today, the Union Power Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, said either a gas or a thermal power project would be set up at Pathankot wi

LEENA SRIVASTAVA

We provide a major push to renewable energy forms including solar but seem to have thrown distribution reforms out of the door. States have set up electricity regulatory commissions but they are struggling to define their relevance.

The suspicion that India

Minister of State for Energy (Independent Charge) Rajendra Shukla said that the target of feeder separation and Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Project should be achieved by December 2012. Shukla was reviewing the activities of Madhya Pradesh East Region Electricity Distribution Company at Jabalpur today.

Dibrugarh, Sept 14: The Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification scheme (RGRES) has turned into a fiasco in most of the rural areas as villagers remain deprived of power supply despite claims of its successful implementation by the authority.

The fate of rural electrification in Jharkhand hangs in balance, with action being taken against Hyderabad-based IVRCL

Jayajit Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar July 05, 2010, 0:59 IST

OREDA to electrify 1000 inaccessible villages this year

Orissa may have the most number of un-electrified villages in the country after Jharkhand but the state is upbeat on meeting the target for electrification of all its villages by December 2011.

GANGTOK, June 30

The benefits of the rural electrification programme have been lost by supplying the power for only a few hours a day and a weak system of providing new connections and collecting bills, says Ajay Shankar