Sewa HW project may offer relief to power-starved Jammu

  • 12/06/2004

  • Kashmir Times (Jammu)

Jammu region, where power crisis has become a buzz word like other parts of the state, may have a bit of relief next year if Sewa Hydroelectric project stage II does not get entangled in any controversy bugging other power projects and gets completed by December, 2005 its stipulated target. The installed capacity of this project is proposed to be 120 MW and annual unrestricted energy production will be 635.95 MU. Sewa Hydro electric project stage-II was considered for execution in the tenth plan. The project exists in the middle part of the cascade development of the Sewa river just upstream of 9 MW Sewa-III project. One of the important Himalayan river - Sewa, a tributary of river Ravi, originates from glaciers in the catchment of Bani block in the district Kathua of J&K state.