Capacity production of power is the dream of the Chief Minister. He wants that in next five years, the State should be able to produce 4000 MW of power to boost its programme of making the State self-sufficient in this major sector. We have the rich water resources and we need harnessing the resource into generating power. There can be no justification for the State to be deficit in power when it has so much of water resource available. In his recent inspection of Baglihar Hydro Electric Project (BHEP) at Chanderkot in Ramban, it was reminded that the first stage of 450 MW BHEP was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2008 and the project started commercial generation of power from April 1, 2009. “The power plant has generated 10,724.06 million units of energy by the end of August 2012 worth Rs 4,027.450 crore since its inspection against an expenditure of Rs 5,506.30 crore,” an official spokesman said. Presently pre-commencement works besides some essential works of stage second are under execution. An expenditure of Rs 673 crore has been incurred up to July 2012 on BHEP stage second, scheduled to be commissioned by August 2015. All this augurs well for the state and hopefully after going through a long ordeal of power shortage, the State will enter a new phase of adequate power supply. This should naturally give a boost to rapid industrialization of the State and rejuvenation of laid off industries in order to revive the economic and financial health of the State. The satisfying aspect is that the Chief Minister has fully understood the importance of strengthening power sector and streamlining its generation, transmission and distribution system. Various reforms suggested for the PDD only recently have sent a message that the present Government is seriously concerned with bringing in drastic change for improvement of power position in the State.
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