Hon`ble Chairman Estimate committee Sh.G.M.Saroori Grilled NHPC & Power Developmet Deptt.

Jammu:- In todays meeting of estimate committee worthy Chairman estimate committee Sh.G.M.Saroori grilled NHPC for its back tracking from the agreement which envisaged NHPC for creation of Indira Park and sewrage/ drainage facilities for Kishtwar town. The worthy chairman estimate committee Sh.G.M.Saroori asked NHPC authorities that the corporation is getting 3 crore/day profit from the Dul Hasti hydro electric power project but till date sewrage/drainage facility to Kishtwar town & creation of indira park remains a reverie for the people of Kishtwar.Hon`ble chairman asked the NHPC authorities to submit the reply of these long pending problems with in 15 days which has led to the ecological degradation.

Hon`ble chairman estimate committee also grilled PDD for keeping 20 to 25 villages covered under RGGVY without electricity. The worthy chairman asked the concerned Deptt to mitigate the same. The chairman also urged the deptt to relax the electricity fee of BPL families which is highly exaggerated. Hon`ble chairman also directed the PDD to replace the rotten poles immediately in rural areas & barbed wires should be replaced by proper wires so that power losses can be mitigated further he directed the deptt to provide transformers to the habitation consisting of 20 to 50 families