Yusuf blames UP for power crisis
While Delhiites are facing severe powercuts, blamegame has started among the politicians. Delhi power minister Haroon Yusuf on Monday that the power crisis has surfaced because of Uttar Pradesh.
“The present load shedding is due to technical reasons, like frequency disturbances, un-planned overdrawal by neighbouring states and supply of some amount of generation from northern region to southern region. The crisis of generation coupled with overdrawal by neighbouring states like UP has created a situation of load shedding in Delhi from October 5,” he said.
The minister further said that Uttar Pradesh alone has overdrawn over 800 to 2,000 MW in the last few days. This unplanned overdrawal by UP has resulted in frequency disturbances and discoms are forced to adopt loadshedding because of under frequency. Coupled with this, the shortage of coal and less generation have aggravated the problem.
However Mr Yusuf assured that uninterrupted and quality power would be provided.
“In this festive season, the government has taken major steps to improve the power availability in the city. He further said that Dadri and BTPS are being urged to generate full capacity of 1,400 MW and 620 MW, respectively. Gas has now been allocated to Bawana Power Plant and it is expected to start generation soon. Preparations are now underway for gas tie-ups and inauguration,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra slammed the Delhi government and the private discoms for power crisis in the city.
“Every year, chief minister Shiela Dikshit assures the people of Delhi that this year there would not be any powercut but every year she fails to come up to the people’s expectations. In fact there is a shortage of 1,500 to 2,000 megawatts of electricity in Delhi.”
“The Bawana Power Plant could not be completed in time. The date of commissioning of the Bawana Power Plant was extended several times during the last five years even though all assurances were given that the plant would be made operational prior to the Commonwealth Games,” he said.
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