Silchar: World Bank would give Rs 13,000 crore for infrastructrual development of power generation facilities in the Northeast which would be executed by Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL). PGCIL Chairman-cum-Managing Director R N Nayak said on Thursday the company was keen to improve the power scenario in the region had executed several long term and short term projects in it. Nayek was on a visit to the newly built 400/132 KV power substation at Srikona, near Silchar town which was completed by PGCIL in 14 months and it would start functioning by May 31.

World Bank would give Rs 13,000 crore for infrastructrual development of power generation facilities in the North East, which would be executed by Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL).

The PGCIL Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Mr R N Nayak, was on a visit to the newly built 400/132 KV power substation at Srikona, near Silchar town, which was completed by PGCIL in 14 months and would start functioning by May 31.

Projects to be executed by Power Grid Corp

World Bank would give Rs 13,000 crore for infrastructural development of power generation facilities in the North East which would be executed by Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL), a company official said. PGCIL Chairman-cum-Managing Director R N Nayak said here today the company was keen to improve the power scenario in the region and had executed several long-term and short-term projects in it.

Assam is set to undertake the second phase of power sector reforms, which is expected to see major initiatives to boost generation and greater efforts for privatisation.

“In 2005, we started the first phase of reforms which saw restructuring of the then power behemoth Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB).

“Now we are poised to undertake the second phase of the reforms where focus would on increasing generation and improving transmission and distribution,” the Minister for Power, Commerce and Industries, Mr Pradyut Bordoloi, said.

Guwahati: Assam is set to undertake the second phase of power sector reforms, which is expected to see major initiatives to boost generation and greater efforts for privatisation.

“In 2005 we started the first phase of reforms which saw restructuring of the then power behemoth Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB).” “Now we are poised to undertake the second phase of the reforms where focus would on increasing generation and improving transmission and distribution,” Minister for Power, Commerce and Industries Pradyut Bordoloi said.

GUWAHATI: The Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is not being properly implemented in Assam along with other parts of the country. This was revealed by the Asian Indigenous and Tribal People’s Network (AITPN) in its report titled ‘‘The State of the Forest Rights Act: Undoing of Historical Injustice Withered’’ which was released on Monday.

It is also seen that the implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is very slow in Assam and the rate of rejection of claims made by the forest dwellers is also increasing in case of the State.

A farmer was killed and 175 injured in Tripura when a tornado, accompanied by rain and hailstorm, hit the state, destroying more than 1,000 houses, uprooting trees and disrupting communication, officials said on Tuesday.

Authorities have stepped up efforts to provide relief to those affected by the tornado that struck late on Monday. The injured comprise children, women and elderly people.

Agartala: ONGC-Tripura Power Corporation (OTPC)’s 724-MW gas-based thermal power project at Palatana in South Tripura district would start generation by June, a top official of state-owned oil major ONGC said on Tuesday. The first phase of the project would be operational by June, ONGC Chairman and Managing Director Sudhir Basudeva, who reviewed the progress of work at the project with OTPC officials on Monday, told reporters here.

Agartala: Oil giant ONGC along with a Vietnamese company will launch joint exploration for oil in the South China Sea despite objections from China, a top company official said on Tuesday.

“There is nothing wrong in it. ONGC-Videsh has got this asignment through an international bid and we will go ahead with our exploration work with a Vietnamese oil company,” ONGC Chairman and Managing Director Sudhir Vasudeva said here.

tHE 724-MW gas-based thermal power project is a JV between ONGC and Tripura Power Corporation

ONGC-Tripura Power Corporation (OTPC)'s 724-MW gas-based thermal power project at Palatana in South Tripura district would start generation by June, a top official of state-owned oil major ONGC said today.