Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Progress on Remote Village Electrification Programme was bad in Kalahandi, Nuapada and Koraput districts

200 remote villages to get electricity
Business Standard, Sept 22, 2009

About 200 villages in Gajapati, Ganjam, Nayagarh and Angul districts in Orissa, which are located in dense forests and inaccessible areas, will be electrified through alternative sources of power.

This includes 100 villages in Gajapati district, 35 villages in Ganjam, 35 villages in Nayagarh and 33 villages in Angul district which can’t be electrified under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY).

These villages will be included in the Remote Village Electrification Programme (RVEP) being implemented by Orissa Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA) and other schemes of the Union government.

This was decided at a review meeting of rural electrification attended by Kapil Mohan, director (rural electrification), P. K. Jena, state energy secretary, and senior officials of National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC), National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and Power Grid Corporation Of India Ltd. (PGCIL).

Though the complete electrification of Gajapati, Ganjam, Nayagarh and Angul district was targeted to be over by 30th September this year, it couldn’t be achieved by this deadline. Now it is expected to be completed in all respects, including the required documentation, by the end of November 2009, sources said.

About 12,000 villages in 26 districts were targeted to be electrified under RGGVY by the end of this fiscal. Since this is unlikely to be achieved, the Orissa government has already communicated its displeasure over the delay.

Sources said, Maytas infrastructure, vested with the work in Jajpur, Sundergarh and Khurda districts, has not yet started the work. There were some problems pertaining to main contractor in Boudh district, causing the delay.

While the progress of work in Puri, Balasore, Keonjhar, Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Baragarh is satisfactory, the progress was bad in Kalahandi, Nuapada and Koraput districts.

Similarly, in Phulbani district, there were some problems pertaining to package-B sub-contracted by the Orissa Small Industries Corporation (OSIC).

2 comments:

S Vardhan said...

which villages will the programme cover? will this cover naxal affected villages?

S Vardhan said...

which villages will be covered under this? will the naxal villages also be covered?