PATNA: CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday requested Bihar State Power Holding Company Limited (BSPHCL) to install sensible pay as you go meters in the entire households by way of August 15 next year. He mentioned it will lead to restrained use of energy, besides eliminating the load of paying electricity bills, whilst the substitute of the outdated rickety transmission traces by way of the new conductors would forestall human casualty brought about and in addition prevent energy theft.
Nitish used to be talking at a serve as after inaugurating the state power department’s completed projects price Rs616.11 crore and laying the root stones for projects valued at Rs390.84 crore. He mentioned the work regarding set up of separate agriculture feeder and substitute of the existing outdated electrical transmission traces should be completed by way of December 31 this year.
The CM mentioned the federal government subsidy to energy customers all the way through fiscal 2018-19 could be to the song of Rs5,000 crore. He disfavoured giving unfastened electricity to any customers. Referring to the Bihar Electricity Regulatory Commission (BERC) choice as not to hike the power tariff regardless of the plea of the power distribution corporations (discoms), the CM mentioned, “The energy tariff charged may well be low, however we don't favour grant of unfastened electricity.”
Nitish also mentioned the federal government had determined to install solar energy plants at Kajra (Munger) and Pirpainty (Bhagalpur) from its personal resources to generate 300MW at every of the two. He mentioned solar energy plates should be first installed on the entire executive office rooftops sooner than asking non-public house owners to do the similar.
Earlier, deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi and energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav praised the level and quality of work, which brought Bihar to the “frontrunner states” in energy sector.
Modi mentioned Rs90,000 crore were spent on the development of power infrastructure since 2005-06, whilst Rs25,000 crore were spent on subsidy cost.
Principal secretary (power) and BSPHCL managing director Pratyaya Amrit referred to the milestones set in achieving the objectives set by way of CM in rural electrification, giving energy connections to every willing household and set up of separate agriculture feeder, besides toilets for girls team of workers and sectional officials of BSPHCL in all its 349 sub-divisions. Against the objective of putting in separate 1,312 agriculture feeders, 460 were completed.
The CM requested BSPHCL to “reconsider if extra agriculture feeders had been required to hide every arable land for irrigation by way of the usage of electricity so as to completely get rid of using diesel-based irrigation,” as the latter ended in environmental degradation.
He also mentioned really extensive relief of electricity fees to 75 paise in line with unit for irrigation had significantly brought down enter price of one-time irrigation of a plot of land from Rs100 spent on diesel to Rs3.
Nitish used to be talking at a serve as after inaugurating the state power department’s completed projects price Rs616.11 crore and laying the root stones for projects valued at Rs390.84 crore. He mentioned the work regarding set up of separate agriculture feeder and substitute of the existing outdated electrical transmission traces should be completed by way of December 31 this year.
The CM mentioned the federal government subsidy to energy customers all the way through fiscal 2018-19 could be to the song of Rs5,000 crore. He disfavoured giving unfastened electricity to any customers. Referring to the Bihar Electricity Regulatory Commission (BERC) choice as not to hike the power tariff regardless of the plea of the power distribution corporations (discoms), the CM mentioned, “The energy tariff charged may well be low, however we don't favour grant of unfastened electricity.”
Nitish also mentioned the federal government had determined to install solar energy plants at Kajra (Munger) and Pirpainty (Bhagalpur) from its personal resources to generate 300MW at every of the two. He mentioned solar energy plates should be first installed on the entire executive office rooftops sooner than asking non-public house owners to do the similar.
Earlier, deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi and energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav praised the level and quality of work, which brought Bihar to the “frontrunner states” in energy sector.
Modi mentioned Rs90,000 crore were spent on the development of power infrastructure since 2005-06, whilst Rs25,000 crore were spent on subsidy cost.
Principal secretary (power) and BSPHCL managing director Pratyaya Amrit referred to the milestones set in achieving the objectives set by way of CM in rural electrification, giving energy connections to every willing household and set up of separate agriculture feeder, besides toilets for girls team of workers and sectional officials of BSPHCL in all its 349 sub-divisions. Against the objective of putting in separate 1,312 agriculture feeders, 460 were completed.
The CM requested BSPHCL to “reconsider if extra agriculture feeders had been required to hide every arable land for irrigation by way of the usage of electricity so as to completely get rid of using diesel-based irrigation,” as the latter ended in environmental degradation.
He also mentioned really extensive relief of electricity fees to 75 paise in line with unit for irrigation had significantly brought down enter price of one-time irrigation of a plot of land from Rs100 spent on diesel to Rs3.
CM for prepaid meters in all houses by Aug 15
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