Govt in talks with ADB, Power Finance Corp.
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun April 11, 2009, 0:49 IST

The Uttarakhand government is in talks with financial institutions like the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Power Finance Corporation to revive a couple of big hydel projects.

Planning Commission has proposed end to the cross subsidy in power and gas sectors to provide relief to the industry by October 2009. Sources told Business Recorder that the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Consultative Group held its meeting in Planning Commission on March 31 and proposed energy efficiency sector roadmap.

Labour and Expatriates' Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday said open pit mining in the North Bengal's coal mines would help solve not only power problems, but also check desertification in that region.

Telgaria (Bokaro): They are fed up of campaign promises. They want results. And now to ensure that one such promise made 15 years ago, that of electricity reaching their homes, is kept, this cluster of villages near Bokaro has decided to boycott elections.

The government is likely to allocate Tk 3,884 crore for power sector development, which includes installation of nine new power plants in the country.

It will be a component of the annual development programme (ADP) next fiscal year.

Power crisis is likely to ease in Chittagong with two rental and one state-run power plants expecting to generate 227 megawatt more power by April next year.

Of the three plants, a 22-MW rental power plant at Barabkunda in Sitakunda will go into operation by this month.

The proposed petroleum, chemical and petrochemicals investment regions (PCPIR) project at Nayachar, in the estuarine belt of East Midnapore, may result in an alteration in the course of the south-west monsoon resulting in climatic hazards in faraway places of the country.

New Delhi: The Capital

Residents of different areas surrounding Kumargaon Electricity Plant in Sylhet city formed a human chain on Saturday, demanding immediate measures to check noise pollution caused by the power plant.