The Haryana government plans to strengthen power distribution system at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore during next two years so as to give reliable and qualitative power supply in the state.
Besides this, under an ambitious plan to strengthen power transmission system in the state, the government will construct 197 new substations of various levels and augment capacity of 163 existing substations during next three years at a cost of Rs 3,100 crore so as to match the capacity of the transmission system to the increasing availability of power in the State.
This was stated by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda while addressing a public meeting after inaugurating a 33 KV substation at village Bodiwali, near here.
The substation has been commissioned at a cost of Rs 2.50 crore, said an official release.
Hooda said that during last eight years, the government has constructed 350 new substations, augmented capacity of 586 old substations and erected lines of a length of 5100 kilometre in the state.
The total number of substations in the state has thus increased to 850, he said.
He said that to strengthen power transmission and distribution system in district Fatehabad, the Government is executing a comprehensive plan of Rs 200 crore.
Under this plan, the power utilities would construct 16 new substations of various levels and augment capacity of eight existing substations.
Hooda said that to give relief to the consumers from interruptions and to give reliable and better power supply during the summers, a massive campaign of renovation and strengthening of distribution system in towns and villages is going on at a fast pace.
The campaign started in January and will be completed by the end of June.
He urged the people to take benefit of voluntary disclosure scheme launched by the power utilities and get the unauthorised extension of load regularised without paying any penalty.
It would help the utilities to augment capacity of the system by setting up additional transformers, he added.
