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Delhi seeking power from Orissa, Gujarat: Sheila

Staff Reporter

`Badarpur power station would be back in action by July 20'

NEW DELHI: Faced with increasing public unrest and protests by the residents' welfare associations over the deteriorating power situation in the Capital, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday disclosed that her Government was in talks with the Gujarat and Orissa Governments for supply of power to overcome the existing shortage of around 500MW.

Stating that the Government was well aware of the difficulties being faced by Delhiites due to the power shortage, Ms. Dikshit said the Badarpur thermal power station would be back in action by July 20. However, in view of the crisis like situation it has been decided to approach the Gujarat and Orissa Governments to immediately make power available to Delhi. The Union Power Secretary had convened a meeting of the States concerned on Saturday to discuss the matter so that additional power that would be made available to Delhi is transmitted without any problems.

Ms. Dikshit expressed confidence that power from these two States would be transmitted to Delhi within the next couple of days. The people of Delhi would get the much-needed relief from the regular load shedding.

Similarly, in another effort aimed at augmenting power availability, the Delhi Government has given the green signal for setting up of power generation projects from municipal waste. A presentation was made on Monday at a meeting presided over by Ms. Dikshit, Chief Secretary R. Narayanswami, Principal Secretary (Power) Rakesh Mehta and Principal Secretary (Urban Development) O.P. Kelkar.

Soon after the presentation, Ms. Dikshit said the commissioning of projects at Timarpur, Okhla, Gazipur, Dwarka, Coronation Pillar, Rithala, Kesopur and Nilothi have been suggested which altogether would consume around 6,000 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste and 700 MGD of sewage to produce 90 MW of green power with no harm to environment. Apart from this, these projects would also produce treated water that would be diverted to the Yamuna. Each project would generate around 8-10 MW of power. Setting up of projects at different locations would also help in disposal of entire garbage at the nearest place saving cost of transportation for taking garbage to landfill sites. The concept of development of landfill sites would automatically become irrelevant after commissioning of such green power projects.

The Chief Minister directed the agencies concerned to gradually make functional these projects, which would go a long way in disposal of garbage at nearest sites.

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