Rs 10,000 cr for power transmission in NE States

Guwahati: The Union Power ministry has rolled out a Rs.10,000 crore project to strengthen the transmission and distribution network in the the eight northeastern states of the region, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said here on Thursday.
The minister was participating in the two-day all-India power ministers conference, being held at the Administrative Staff College here.
“The Rs.10,000 crore project will boost the power transmission and distribution network. The Power Grid Corporation of India Limited has started work. The 6000 MW Biswanath Chariali-Agra transmission will be ready in another three to three-and-half months,” Goyal said.
He said the stalled projects on the Teesta river in Sikkim were expected to be completed by 2015.
The central government will consider the interest of Assam while taking the final resolution on the 2000 MW Lower Subansiri hydro power project along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, he said.
The ONGC’s first power venture 2×363.3 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine at Palatana in Tripura has already been commissioned, he said.
Another 100 MW capacity addition has been done to the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation’s Monarchak project in Tripura. (IANS)