LUCKNOW: The CNG crisis in the city might get a solution around 2010, when two major CNG stations, planned at Gomtinagar and Aashiana, get functional. The laying of pipelines for two stations has started.

Lucknow: In a bid to promote use of solar power in Uttar Pradesh, rural banks in the State will provide easy loans to village committees under micro-finance scheme to enable houses to install solar lighting systems.

LUCKNOW: With a grim power situation staring at the face of Uttar Pradesh, UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has made additional arrangement of 1,400 MW during Diwali season.

Just a few bright and pragmatic ideas and their proper implementation would alter the course of history today for a better tomorrow in terms of power generation in UP, said Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Navneet Sehgal.

Lucknow: In a bid to meet shortfall of power in the state, the Uttar Pradesh Government has decided to build five thermal power plants with a total generation capacity of 9,940 MW.

Sujay Mehdudia

NEW DELHI: The Union government is understood to have firmed up a proposal to set up a 4,000 MW thermal power plant in Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh.

The move comes close on the heels of a demand by All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi that a major developmental package be given for the drought-hit and poverty hit region.

Within two months of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanding a development package for the Bundelkhand region, the Planning Commission has firmed up a proposal to set up a 4,000-Mw power plant there.

LUCKNOW: With its plans to set a 4,000 MW ultra-mega thermal power plant in Lalitpur district nose-diving, the UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is now weighing the possibility of setting up the project in Bargarh in Chitrakoot district.

The pollution control board has cracked down on three multinational companies. Three Phase-2-based companies have been served with notices for not putting in place scrubber systems. The notices have been sent on the receipt of complaints from the district administration, it is learnt.