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NCR spends 1,400 crore on diesel: ASSOCHAM

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‘NCR on an average suffers power outages of eight to ten hours a day’
‘Industrial units have to install four to six generator sets in each location’

NEW DELHI: A whopping Rs.1,400 crore per year is spent on diesel for running generator sets by industrial units located in and around the National Capital Region to meet their production targets, according to a new study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India.

Releasing the study on Wednesday, ASSOCHAM secretary-general D. S. Rawat said failure to abstain from making use of generator sets in the NCR belt by industrial units would cause them to fall short of supplies that have been committed to vendors by over 40 per cent as the original power situation remains extremely erratic and disruptive.

Stating that during peak and lean production hours the NCR on an average suffers power outages of eight to ten hours a day, Mr. Rawat said industrial units have to install four to six generator sets in each industrial location. “It not only causes environmental and sound pollution but is also a sheer wastage of diesel which otherwise should have been used for running road transport,” he added.

Stating that over 38,260 small, medium and large industrial units including BPOs and ITES companies were operating in Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad, Meerut, Loni, Ballabhgarh and Bahadurgarh, Mr. Rawat said they consume Rs.117 crore worth of diesel per month to get over disrupted and erratic power supplies to meet and honour their production and supply commitments.

“The maximum diesel spending of Rs.675.84 crore per year has been witnessed in NCR’s small units in view of their higher number followed by medium and large industrial that spend Rs.386.24 crore and Rs.341.75 crore respectively on diesel per year. The NCR has about 4,600 and 2,374 medium and large industrial units,” said Mr. Rawat. The ASSOCHAM study points out that despite the astronomical spending on diesel, industrial units still suffer as capacities are not optimally utilised with generator sets.

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